much of his time in his college years, not devoting time to his schoolwork, but to his writings. He wrote until the beginning of World War II. In 1942 he enlisted in the United States Army. He served in Europe. He became a staff sergeant, another parallel to one of his short stories, "For Esme with Love and Squalor". Throughout the entire war Salinger carried a portable typewriter, writing and publishing his and other GI's experiences (Hamilton 12). After the war he published many short stories which later were collected and published in one of his books, Nine Stories.
             I would like to now focus on one of his major works, Catcher in the Rye. Many parallels can be made between his life and his views to those in the book. When he published the book he received good reviews and was on the New York Times best seller list for seven months. Reviewing the book for The New York Times (16 July 1951), Nash K. Burger called it "an unusually brilliant first novel." It was one of many novels writ
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