The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger | Characters, Summary, Analysis
J. D. Salinger was an American author who mainly wrote short stories. His most popular and acclaimed work is The Catcher in the Rye, a novel published in 1951. Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919, and he died on January 27, 2010. His father was a successful Jewish cheese importer, and his mother was Scotch-Irish Catholic. Salinger was a shy and reticent person since his childhood. He belonged to an upper-middle-class family and though he tried and got enrolled in several colleges to complete his graduation, he always flunked the course. He took fictional writing classes at Columbia University and began writing short stories for Story magazine in 1940. During World War II, Salinger joined the U.S. Army’s infantry division and served in combat, including the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The battle at Normandy was one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Salinger witnessed the slaughtering of thousands of young men at Normandy and that had a deep effect on him. After his return from the battleground, he continued his writing career and in 1951, his first and only novel The Catcher in the Rye was published. Just like Salinger, the protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye belongs to upper-class New York City, both flunked out of prep schools, and both find it difficult to communicate with others. Salinger’s horrifying experiences of World War II are expressed in Holden’s mistrusting, cynical view of adult society. The major theme of the novel is adolescent alienation and loss of innocence. The novel has an optimistic ending that suggests that alienation is just a phase. Through this novel, Salinger expresses the trauma of World War II that he considers a blunder of adults. World War I was supposed “the war to end all wars,” but World War II proved that this claim was hollow and phony, just like the ideas that adults continue to force on Holden in the novel.
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