Salinger 's A Pretty Good Life Growing Up

Salinger grew up in New York City, and majority of the book “The Catcher in the Rye” took place in New York City. D.B. and Salinger have another similar feature. Salinger entered the military in 1942. While Salinger was in the war he wrote. He published “Slight Rebellion of Madison” in 1946, but it later became “The Catcher in the Rye”. Holden’s brother also wrote while he was in the military. The war both gave them something to write about. In the book Salinger wrote, “My brother D.B. was in the Army for four years. He was in the war, too—he landed on D-Day and all—but I really think he hated the Army worse than the war. I was practically a child at the time, but I remember when he used to come home on furlough and all, all he did was lie on his bed, practically. He hardly ever even came in the living room. Later, when he went overseas and was in

The Catcher in the Rye was J.D. Salinger’s first step onto the literary playing field. This commencing status left Salinger, as a serious author, unique as a sort of liberated agent, not confine to one or more schools of critics, resembling many of his contemporaries were.

Salinger was born in New York in 1919 and wrote The Catcher in the Rye in 1951, and the values in the book reflected values in America at that time. A major value which society followed during that era

Early in Salinger's life, he faced one the cultural illnesses widespread in the North Eastern states of America.  It was the virulent disease of anti-Semitism.  Salinger lived in New York City, where he was raised as the son of Jewish parents.  The 1920's and 1930's were a time in America when Anti-Semitism was written into the policies of many institutions.  His heritage automatically deprived him from attending the best colleges: Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth.  He was prevented from belonging to certain social clubs, from certain professions, and from the rank of officer in the U. S. Military.

Lies, failure, depression, and loneliness are only some of the aspects that Holden Caulfield goes through in the novel The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger. Salinger reflects Holden’s character through his own childhood experiences. Salinger admitted in a 1953 interview that "My boyhood was very much the same as that of the boy in the book.… [I]t was a great relief telling people about it” (Wikipedia). Thus, the book is somewhat the life story of J.D. Salinger as a reckless seventeen-year-old who lives in New York City and goes through awful hardships after his expulsion and departure from an elite prep school. Holden, the protagonist in this novel, is created as a depressed, cynical, and isolated character and he

Jerome David Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, is a work of fiction and a

Throughout Catcher in the Rye there are a lot of small parts of the story where it would be linked to the book and to the text all together. J.D. Salinger created a lot of important passages that would be associated with what type of message that he was trying to convey to the audience. Salinger would develop certain characters like Phoebe through her description and actions to have a influence on Holden, thus causing him to change as a character and reveal sides of him that the audience hasn’t seen before.

After he graduated from Valley Forge and beginning another attempt at attending college, Salinger was pushed by professor he met at Columbia University. Whit Burnett convinced him to use his skills to write for publications such as Colliers, Saturday Evening Post, and Story, as mentioned by the editors of “J.D Salinger Biography,” Biography.com. In an interview with David Shields and Shane Salerno on their biography, Salinger, they spoke of Salinger serving as a soldier in World War II, and how he was believed to be working on The Catcher in the Rye during the war. They also suggest that to him, working on the novel at the time was, “...almost as a talisman to keep him alive...” Shields and Salerno also add that when he was finished and ready to publish, he struggled even further. One of the publishers he approached to get his work published hurt him deeply, which even could have even caused even more reason to Salinger’s later actions. After he had published the novel, he did not expect as much fame as he received and soon became overwhelmed. This fame is what caused his later isolation from the rest of the world, “success he had seemingly craved early in life became something he ran away from once it came” (Biography.com). After his isolation, Salinger later died, married to his final wife, Colleen

J.D. Salinger published Catcher in The Rye in 1951. The main protagonist in the novel, Holden Caulfield experiences many conflicts and predicaments. It is common for Holden to hold opinions on characters throughout the book. His opinionated nature shows that human interactions mean a lot to him. Holden generally likes genuine people opposed to phony people. The comparison of genuine and phony is shown throughout the novel, especially when Holden meets new people. His true personality is shown to the reader when we see whom he respects and despises.

J.D. Salinger went to war in the second World War. Salinger wrote six pages of Catcher in the Rye during his time in the war. There is a picture that someone took of Salinger sitting down and writing or looking over his six pages. J.D. Salinger started to write Catcher in the Rye as he was in a camp. It was on a D day when Salinger and his group were sent through the ocean on boats to do a sweep of the ocean. The next day, E day, the people that were supposed to go where shot down and the war sprung on them.

The Catcher in the Rye was written by a mentally disrupted person, J.D. Salinger, who suffered through many of the same conditions that the main character, Holden, had gone through. Salinger puts many of his own emotions and tendencies into the book, which allows the audience to get the true feeling that both Holden and Salinger felt. Thus the people that feel the same way are able to connect and interpret the book in their own way.

Jerome David Salinger, known as J.D., is an American short story writer and novelist. He was born on January 1, 1919 and is still alive at the age of 81. J.D. Salinger was born and raised in Manhattan. He went to prep school at Valley Forge Military Academy from 1934-1936. He spent 5 months in Europe when he was 18 or 19 years old. Then, in 1937 and 1938 he studied at Ursinus College and New York University. From 1939 to 1942, he went to Columbia University where he decided to become a writer. Salinger published short story collections and one novel. His best known work, The Catcher in the Rye, was published in 1951. The short stories he wrote were "Nine Stories" in 1953, "Franny and Zooey" in 1961,

In 1942, Salinger was drafted into the army and was a member of the Counter Intelligence Corps. After World War II, he was hospitalized in Germany for psychiatric treatment. In 1951, Salinger's only novel was published, Catcher in the Rye. His collection of short stories: Nine Stories, Franny and Zooey, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction were published in 1953, 1961, and 1963 respectively. In 1953, he moved to Cornish, New Hampshire to escape publicity. On February 17, 1955, J. D. married Claire Douglas and had two children, Matthew and Margaret. The couple divorced in 1967. Since the late 80s Salinger has been married to Colleen O'Neill. Little is known about his life after the late 1950's. Salinger died of natural causes on January 27, 2010.

Salinger Later Published a story in 1948 titled “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” which started Salinger’s Career. In 1951 Salinger’s soon to be biggest seller The Catcher in the Rye was released. The major success of the novel had landed itself a spot on New York Times bestseller list for 3o weeks. “The success of The Catcher in the Rye did not persuade Salinger to publish another novel.” (Biography).The Catcher in the Rye actually received a massive amount of backlash from the public. It was actually the most banned book in the U.S., most people didn’t like it because it contained an enormous amount of profanity and accused of a communistic plot. Salinger later resided in Corning, New Hampshire where he lived the rest of his days living in the shadows. Salinger was a very anti-social person, Salinger had said “I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody” (Brainyquote). Salinger had even began to search for a deeper meaning in his life as became an avid follower of Buddhism and later a practitioner of zen yoga and Hinduism. Salinger had married several times with women much younger than him each ending in a disaster as he often mistreated

Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919, in New York. Despite the fact that he did not produce a vast quantity of work, J.D. was a literary giant, and was widely regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest writers. His landmark novel, The Catcher in the Rye, set a new course for literature in post-WWII America and vaulted Salinger to the heights of literary fame. During later