J. D. Salinger And The Catcher in the Rye

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  J.D. Salinger
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  The Catcher in the Rye
  

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  Jerome David Salinger
  Born - January 1, 1919 - Manhattan, NY
  Parents were wealthy
  Didn’t have a great
  relationship with his dad
  Went to prep schools,
  military school, Europe,
  and college in NY
  
  

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  Salinger’s Early Love Life
  Salinger fell in love with Oona O’Neill -->
  But she left him for Charlie Chaplin -->
  He was much older than she was!
  

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  Experiences in War
  Drafted into the Infantry in WWII
  Involved in the invasion of Normandy
  Involved in a useless battle at Hürtgenwald
  Witnessed atrocities of war
  Suffered from PTSS (post-traumatic stress syndrome), a.k.a. “shell shock”
  

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  Other Relationships
  Sylvia - 1945 - divorced
  Claire Douglas - 1955 - divorced in 1967
  Two children, Margaret and Matt
  Joyce Maynard - 1970s - girlfriend (broke up because she was much younger and wanted children; he thought he was too old)
  Colleen O’Neill - late 1980s (married) - she was 40 years younger than Salinger
  

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  Publications
  Early short stories - published in magazines
  Story
  Saturday Evening Post
  Esquire
  The New Yorker
  Stories eventually published in collections
  Franny and Zooey
  Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
  Nine Stories
  
  

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  Publications
  The Catcher in the Rye
  Salinger’s only novel
  Published in 1951
  Immediate success - quickly reached #4 on the New York Times Bestseller List
  Book-of-the-Month Club selection
  Never out of print - still sells 250,000 copies annually
  
  

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  Catcher Controversy
  One of the most censored books of the 20th century (#13 on the ALA list of most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000)
  Language
  Sexual themes
  Alcohol
  Blasphemy
  Undermining family values
  Holden being a poor role model
  At one point, Catcher was the most censored and second most taught book in the USA
  

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  Where is He Now?
  Salinger hasn’t published anything in over 40 years (he’s 89!)
  Lives as a recluse in New Hampshire
  In his last interview, he said that he loves to write, but he writes for himself only
  
  

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  Interesting Tidbit
  In Margaret Salinger’s memoir, she revealed that J.D. Salinger drank his own urine.
  He did this for medicinal purposes
  

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  Catcher in the Rye
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  Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger
  

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  Salinger’s main character, Holden Caulfield epitomizes the growing pains of an entire generation of high school students
  

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  Setting: New York City
  Holden is from a wealthy area of New York City
  Holden is kicked out of Pency Prep
  Story is told over a 3 day period in December in the early 1950s
  
  

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  The Characters:
  Holden Caulfield
  Phoebe Caulfield
  Allie Caulfield
  Ackley
  Stradlater
  Jane Gallagher
  

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  Holden Caulfield
  The protagonist and narrator of the novel
  sixteen-year-old junior who has just been expelled for academic failure
  Extremely negative and judgmental
  Views the adult word as “Phony”
  

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  Phoebe Caulfield
  Holden's ten-year-old sister
  Her childish innocence is one of Holden's only consistent sources of happiness
  Phoebe seems to recognize that Holden is his own worst enemy.
  

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  Characters - Allie Caulfield
  Holden's younger brother
  Dies of leukemia three years before the start of the novel
  Holden carries around a baseball glove on which Allie used to write poems in green ink.
  

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  Characters – Ackley
  Holden's next-door neighbor in his dorm at Pencey Prep
  pimply, insecure boy with terrible dental hygiene
  often barges into Holden's room and acts completely oblivious to Holden's hints that he should leave
  

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  Characters - Stradlater
  Holden's roommate at Pencey Prep
  Stradlater is sexually active and experienced for a prep school student
  Holden calls him a “sexy bastard.”
  

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  Characters – Jane Gallagher
  girl with whom Holden spent a lot of time one summer
  Jane never actually appears in novel
  Jane is extremely important to Holden because she is one of the few girls whom he both respects and finds attractive.
  

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  Holden Caulfield, the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye, begins with the novel with an authoritative statement that he does not intend for the novel to serve as his life story. Currently in psychiatric care, this teenager recalls what happened to him last Christmas, the story which forms the narrative basis for the novel.
  The Plot:
  

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  Holden returns to his dormitory
  where he finds Robert Ackley
  
  *Holden tells about how Allie died of leukemia several years before and how he broke all of the windows in his garage out of anger the night that he died.
  
  Plot 2.
  

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  Plot 3.
  Holden decides to leave Pencey to return to New York City, where he will stay in a hotel before actually going home.
  While he is walking he feels depressed when he hears children singing the song "If a body catch a body coming through the rye." When Holden sees Sally immediately wants to marry her, even though he does not like Sally.
  
  

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  Plot 4.
  He tells Phoebe, whom he known for some time that he would like to be "a catcher in the rye," and he imagines himself standing at the edge of a cliff as children play around him. He would catch them before they ran too close to the cliff.
  
  

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  Plot 6.
  Holden spends the night at Grand Central Station, then sends a note to Phoebe at school, telling her to meet him for lunch. He becomes increasingly distraught and delusional, believing that he will die every time he crosses the street and falling unconscious after suffering from diarrhea.
  
  When he meets Phoebe, she tells him that she wants to go with him and becomes angry when he refuses. He buys Phoebe a ticket for the carousel at the nearby zoo, and as he watches her, he begins to cry.
  
  

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  Plot 7.
  Holden ends his story here. He refuses to tell what happened next and how he got sick, and tells how people are concerned about whether or not he will apply himself next year. He ends the story by telling that he misses Stradlater and Ackley and even Maurice.
  
  

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  Thank you for attention!)