Holden views growing up as a slow surrender to the “phony” and shallow responsibilities of adult life, such as getting a job, serving in the military, and maintaining intimate relationships. In Catcher, we see the impact of Salinger’s World War II experience in Holden’s mistrusting, cynical view of adult society. World War II robbed millions of young men and women of their youthful innocence, and Salinger himself witnessed the slaughter of thousands at Normandy, one of the war’s bloodiest battles. It’s no surprise, then, that Salinger’s experience in World War II should cast a shadow over Holden’s opinions and experiences in The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger: both grew up in upper-class New York City, both flunked out of prep schools, and so on. Many parallels exist between Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye, and J.
In his final years, he continued to avoid contact with the media, and ceased publishing any new works. Salinger hated his sudden fame and retired from New York to Cornish, New Hampshire, where he lived until his death in 2010. In 1951 he published his only full-length novel, The Catcher in the Rye, which rocketed Salinger into the public eye. He went on to publish many stories in The New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and others from 1941 to 1948. Salinger continued to write during the war, and in 1940 he published his first short story in Story magazine. Army’s infantry division and served in combat, including the invasion of Normandy in 1944. During World War II, Salinger ended up in the U.S. He took a fiction writing class in 1939 at Columbia that cemented the dabbling in writing he had done since his early teens. He went on to enroll in several colleges, including New York University and Columbia, though he never graduated. After struggling in several prep schools, Salinger attended Valley Forge Military Academy from 1934 to 1936.
His father was a successful Jewish cheese importer, and his mother was Scotch-Irish Catholic. Jerome David Salinger grew up on Park Avenue in Manhattan.
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