The famous recluse turned his back to fame and success like it was nothing. Jerome David Salinger lived a long life as a young man with many expectations. The writing skills developed through the young years of his life brought people to know his name today. It did not change the man he is though. Throughout J.D. Salinger's adventures across the world through war, glory and fame, readers are brought into his fight through lifelong struggles, time and era, and Salinger's views on the world.
In spite of his thin body of works and narrow way of life, Salinger was a standout amongst. the most compelling American journalists of the twentieth century. Jerome David Salinger was born on January 1, 1919, in New York (Writes). His famous novel, Catcher in the Rye, set another course for writing in post World War II and his short stories, many of which showed up in The New Yorker. Salinger was one of two children. Despite his intelligence, Salinger wasn’t looked at as a student. In the wake of failing out of the McBurney School close to his home in New York's Upper West Side, he was sent off by his father to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania(Writes). Shortly after graduating Valley Forge, Salinger came back home one year to go
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The first words said from Holden Caulfield were “You’ll probably want to know what my lousy childhood was like...but I don’t feel like going into it”(Salinger 1). He mentioned this as if he did not want to tell his story, while telling it Salinger was sent to Europe with some extra money lended from his father to pick up a new language and learn more about the import business.(A&E) It was then that Jerome found interest in writing and turned away from the traditional family business. Along both Salinger and Caulfield’s travels, both struggled for love. Salinger married twice and divorced twice; Holden tried for many dates but all ended on a false note (15 Interesting J.D. Salinger).