Innocence, Compassion, and some 'Crazy' Cliff A novel, which has gained literary recognition worldwide, scrutiny to the point of censorship and has established a following among adolescents, The Catcher in the Rye is in its entirety a unique connotation of the preservation of ...

"I write for myself, and I want to be left absolutely alone to do it." So says Jerome David Salinger, residing in Cornish, New Hampshire. He is, quite literally, a man of few words. He's considered a genuine hero, having served for the Army Signal Corps and the Counter Intelligence ...

Looking back, one can now discern at least four phases in Salinger's career. His early stories generally portray characters that feel estranged and marooned because of World War II. The Catcher in the Rye and Salinger's attempt in that book to deal with estrangement and isolation through a Zen-ins...

J.D. Salinger, in his novel Franny and Zooey, published in 1961, can be seen as an author thriving to release his inner thoughts and emotions through his characters. Many authors have been known to have related characteristics between their characters and themselves. In the post war era when this ...

Born in 1919 to a prosperous Manhattan family, Jerome David Salinger grew up in a New York City milieu. Salinger's upbringing was not unlike that of Holden Caulfield, the Glass children, and many other characters used in his stories. "Being a diligent student was never his first priority: after he f...

Salinger's children, as they appear in various novels and short stories, portray the ills of modern society through their innocence and spirituality, their honesty and sometimes, erratic behaviour. They are often as fragile and odd as they are intelligent and endearing, and the obscenities of life t...