“One day, A long time from now, you’ll cease to care any more whom you please or what anybody has to say about you. That’s when you’ll finally produce the work you’re capable of.”- J.D Salinger J.D Salinger was born January 1,1919 to the parents of Solomon S. and Marie (Jillich) Salinger. He accompanied his older sister Doris . Not much is known about Salinger’s “early days”, though it’s said that his “boyhood was very much the same as the character’s in the book [Holden]. Salinger had gone to public schools until 1932, where he then was transferred to private school named Mcburney School, which he flunked out 11 months later. His father, taking the chance to make the adolescent Salinger into a young man, decided to enroll him to the Valley …show more content…
He meets his “Old Sally” who wants nothing to do with him. In the end of of the book he goes home and sees his sister Phoebe, and his family, and decides to stay. It doesn’t add up. enough to to make people say, “That was an awesome book!” Although he [Holden] doesn’t add up people have compared him to [ Mark Twain’s] Huck form Huckleberry Finn. [Influences on the Catcher in the Rye states that “Holden is to emerge from the sanitarium a maturing, potential adult unlike Huck’s who is willing to assume the burdens of adult life...”](Readings on J.D Salinger, 1998) Catcher in the Rye is sometimes misunderstood in the English Culture. [ The Catcher is tightly controlled and progresses with discipline and purpose through its sequenced events.](Reading on J.D Salinger, 1998) In the book Holden is asked the question what he wants to do with his life. “He [ Holden] replies using the “image” of the song the catcher in the rye. He imagines a field of rye perched high on the cliff, full of children romping and playing. He describes it as catching little children from losing their innocence, therefore being the catcher in the rye means catching people’s