Modern Age: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger One of the famous writers who contributed in the Beat Movement during the Modern Era, Jerome David or J.D. Salinger, became known for his published work, “The Catcher in the Rye”. The Beat Movement during the 1950’s and 1960’s, was concerned about counterculture and youthful alienation.
The plot of “The Catcher in the Rye” depicted about a depressed young man named Holden Caulfield who has a different view from his peers, and his struggles of getting rejections, as well as having a conflict with his childhood and maturity in facing reality. Many events in this novel reflected most of Salinger’s life which he holds a connection with the main character as they both have similar childhood
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Similarly, Holden’s parents sent him to Pencey Preparatory which was a boarding school. Not only that but also Salinger had a neighbor in the military who always seemed to be barging in, showing a resemblance to Holden’s unhygienic neighbor, Ackley. Moreover, Holden Caulfield was born into a wealthy family just as J.D. Salinger and both experienced failures in their love life. With its intensive use of imageries, motifs, and other literary devices, “The Catcher in the Rye” captures the essence of teenage angst through the eyes of Holden Caulfield. His character is different from other people as he views the world in a completely different light, acknowledging the phoniness of society and experiencing disappointments from the people around him. Because the book was published during the postmodern World War II Era when America experienced a booming economy and the practice of social norms that served as a code for people started, it became a controversy as it received lots of bad comments from the readers regarding about J.D. Salinger’s open expression of religion, use of profanity in words and malicious content of sexuality. Not only that but