Committed Some Offense. As Opposed To Being Distinctly

4. J. D. Salinger and and William Forrester are very similar, as they are both recluses. Forrester is labeled as “The Window” by Jamal Wallace and his friends, because he never is seen leaving his apartment. Forrester watches birds regularly from his apartment through the window with binoculars, which is the only thing that anyone can see of him. This leads to rumors that Jamal and his friends talk about, such as Fly during lunch, “I heard he killed someone. That’s why he stayed inside” (Movie). William Forrester hates the fame that his book has brought him, which caused him to hide away. This left many to speculate if he ever wrote any other books, such as Jamal’s english teacher at his school, “This was the only book [William Forrester] chose to publish.

And this event was the result of why he now wants to be the “catcher in the rye”, and protect the children's innocence. Concluding, through this extract of the story, Salinger demonstrates how through change in tone and an unexpected event, he can make the reader empathize with Holden

J. D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey is about a twenty-year-old college student named Franny, who is seeking spirituality in her life. She is a member of the intelligent Glass family, whose children struggle with conforming to society after appearing on the television quiz show called It’s a Wise Child. Salinger’s novel is composed of two sections. The first section, Franny, deals with Franny explaining to her boyfriend her distaste for the college environment. In the second section, Zooey, Franny discusses with her brother Zooey about feeling isolated from the people around her and finding spirituality in her life. In Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger, the main protagonist, Franny, undergoes a change in perspective as she tries to cope with her dissatisfaction with the world through her spiritual beliefs. In the beginning, Franny is experiencing a deterioration in mental health due to her severe judgemental attitude and harsh criticism of her college experience; with little thought, she turns to prayer in an attempt to resolve her difficulties, but her problems grow worse due to her lack of understanding of religion. Eventually, she comes to a greater understanding of her relationship with others as she realizes the genuine meaning of her spiritual beliefs through listening to Zooey’s consoling advice.

Raised by their older brothers, Seymour and Buddy, Franny and Zooey have been taught spiritual before educational. Zooey says, “ I can’t even sit down to a goddamn meal, to this day, without first saying the Four Great Vows under my breath,” (104) referring to Buddhism, Seymour’s prefered religion. Since they were young Franny and Zooey were taught many religions before educational facts.. While the Glass family members focus on this, Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger is a love story.

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden seeks out Mr. Antolini due to his similarity to D.B., but soon discovers that Mr. Antolini is just like the other adults in his life, thereby reaffirming his cynicism towards adults. The distraught Holden seeks a solace from Mr. Antonili due to the preconceived notion that Mr. Antolini’s opinions would parallel his own, only to be completely mistaken. Moreover, the interaction between Holden and Mr. Antolini is similar to that of Mr. Spencer and Holden’s interaction, showing that Mr. Antolini is just like the other adults in his life. In this notion, one can observe why Holden tries to prevent his loved ones from growing up.

The novel Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger, focuses on the burden of conformity and ego in everyday life through detailed analysis of societal norms. Salinger tries to remedy these problems through motivational advice titled “doing it for the Fat Lady”. The guidance originates from Seymour Glass, the eldest of the Glass children, and is expanded upon by Zooey Glass to his sister, Franny. The Fat Lady is symbolic of all of society, both Christ and the lowest of the low. Everyone deserves basic human respect, even a fat, old lady.

The Catcher in the Rye, a contemporary novel by J.D. Salinger, is a thought-provoking, fascinating look at society’s values and issues in the 1950’s. This book would make an excellent transition to film because it is full of both action and implication. It focuses on a four-day period of time in the life of a sixteen-year-old cynic with emotional problems. The book follows Holden Caulfield as he struggles with others and himself to find his way through the “phoniness” and disillusionment involved in his adolescent life. These struggles essentially make up the novel, occurring during a long “flashback” of the four days as he

It is the consensus of most critics that Seymour Glass is the most important character and the leader of the Glass family. This is a point that is obvious from the stories that Salinger has written about the Glass family. Seymour is looked up to and revered by all the children in the family and is his mothers “favorite, most intricately calibrated, her kindest son”(Franny 89). When catastrophe strikes in Franny and Zooey, the only person Franny wants to talk to is Seymour. Why is Seymour the most important person in the Glass family?

The novella, “Zooey,” begins with the youngest male of the Glass family reading a letter that was written to him by Buddy, his elder brother. Buddy tells Zooey of a chance encounter that he had with a little girl at the butcher shop. In his conversation with the girl, Buddy discovers she has two boyfriends. He asks her for their names, to which she replies, “Bobby and Dorothy” (64). Her reply is what motivates Buddy to write his letter to Zooey. He reminds his younger brother, “that all legitimate religious study must lead to unlearning the differences, the illusory differences, between boys and girls, animals and stones, day and night, heat and cold” (67-68). In Buddy’s eyes, the little girl’s reply represents this ideology. She doesn’t recognize that there is a difference between Bobby and Dorothy; she just knows that they are her “boyfriends.” The butcher shop anecdote is

Jerome David Salinger, better known as J.D. Salinger, is a renowned 20th century American author. Jerome David Salinger is known for his young adult novels based on the protection of innocence with the main character acting as a higher power. This theme is reflected through all of J. D. Salinger’s works including, but not limited to, The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Nine Short Stories, A Perfect Day for Banana Fish. Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye and Seymour Glass in Franny and Zooey as well as many others in Salinger’s novels take on the roles of saviors acting as a higher power to protect the innocent around them.

J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a seminal work of fiction with many psychological and social themes, particularly those related to personal development and the transition out of childhood. In this paper, The Catcher in the Rye will be analyzed from the basis of an Adlerian psychoanalytic perspective with a particular emphasis on personality development and the influence of siblings and birth order. This analysis will center around the main character of Salinger’s story, ‘Holden’, who appears to have developed an inferiority complex in his early life which he attempts to make up for with antisocial and dishonest de-identification behaviour. The Adlerian model of psychoanalysis is ideally suited for the character of Holden and provides a number of insights into the influences upon Holden, the state of his mind and the motivations that make up his unique character.

In the bildungsroman Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger employs the struggle of individuality, inevitable maturation, and the childhood corruption of adulthood to reveal Holden’s alienation from society.

In this novel about identity, we are reminded of how often we see ego, wishes, and desires. The specific mundane details of objects, such as the medicine cabinet, Franny’s purse, and other objects, bring out characterization of both Franny and Zooey. The objects can signify how disorderly and imperfect they both are, but are known to be these “perfect” people because they’re really good at what they do. Also, for how famous they are in their acting careers. Salinger uses objects as a metaphor for an empty devoted life, dedicated to a spiritual meaning.

In the novel, Franny and Zooey by J.D Salinger, it is overwhelmed with many themes; the novel also reveals an important message on finding ones self and dealing with the difficulties and struggles of life; these themes consist of religion, egos, and culture. Franny Glass struggles with the phoniness and egotism that spreads through society. She longs to escape her problems and decides to get away from it by withdrawing into spirituality religious values through the Jesus Prayer. She soon realizes the down fall of her solution and through her pains and challenges; she learns how to deal with social unpleasantness. Franny learns that she needs to shed her egotism and act unselfishly. The novel also has many different symbols with

J.D Salinger’s stories always have an array of distinct and intriguing character’s however, in his collection of Nine Short Stories, the male protagonists stand out. They always tend to play of a nice, caring, person but they’re twisted in one way or another. Another unique characteristic about the male protagonists are their relationships with the young children in all of their stories. The relationships they have with the children are unlike most adult-children relationships, yet besides in a “Perfect Day for Banafish” their is no perversion involved, the men just seem to get along with children better. The male protagonists in these short stores want to preserve their innocence as a means of coping with their life. Those two aspects, the