Salinger And Holden Caulfield Similarities
The end of World War II, a time in the beginning of the 1950’s when prosperity and success was on the rise; the glorifying death of The Great Depression, less than a decade of the United States allied with Great Britain and the Soviet Union, the most powerful of all forces this world has ever seen. The U.S. was so deeply entrenched in a nuclear arms race and the birth of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. It was clear to Salinger that the Americans, equipped for the first time in a long while with a good amount of money, flooded to the suburbs and replaced any sorrows they might have had with material products and consumerism; creating an America of conformity and extravagance that Salinger would devote much of his writing to critiquing. There is a strong resemblance of Holden Caulfield to J.D. Salinger in which one could say it is quite autobiographical about Salinger's views of the world. Whereas Holden gave up the dream of ditching society and living by himself away from everyone else, Salinger didn't. After the success of the novel put him in high demand in the public eye, he withdrew and lived a life of isolation. Salinger’s early life indeed paralleled that of the character Holden in
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The novel takes place all within one crazy, extraordinary week of Holden’s high school life. He is an incredibly brilliant young man who at the same time can be so foolish, the choices he makes all affect him in the future and he knows that what he is doing most of the time is wrong, but still accepts it and knows that what is to come will affect him in the worst of ways but still continuous to make horrible mistakes. He has every reason to feel and act the way he does, the things Holden’s been through in his life made him the way he is but that is no reason to lose hope and stop believing in human nature because there is always good people in bad
The novel takes place all within one crazy, extraordinary week of Holden’s high school life. He is an incredibly brilliant young man who at the same time can be so foolish, the choices he makes all affect him in the future and he knows that what he is doing most of the time is wrong, but still accepts it and knows that what is to come will affect him in the worst of ways but still continuous to make horrible mistakes. He has every reason to feel and act the way he does, the things Holden’s been through in his life made him the way he is but that is no reason to lose hope and stop believing in human nature because there is always good people in bad