J.D. Salinger: An Unorthodox Literary Genius

1417 Words3 Pages

“The Catcher In The Rye”
J.D. Salinger was one of the most influential writers in American Literature. Even though he had not published many works of literature before his death, His works such as “The Catcher In The Rye”and “Franny And Zooey” had shaped the 20th century of literature. His life would forever be influenced by his upbringings being brought up in New York to later his traumatizing experiences faced on the battlefield of World War 2, which he had served in his adult years. Even though his books had experienced a lot of success, people still found his books being not only hard to read, but hard to relate to and stand all together. His writing style is a bit unorthodox, his word choice is a bit skewed, but J.D. Was aiming for the …show more content…

James Stern, a reviewer of the New York Times, had said “ Stern tried to imitate Holden by using short, incomplete sentences with undeveloped ideas: "That's the way it sounds to me, Hel said (a friend of the author), and away she went with this crazy book, The Catcher in the Rye. What did I tell ya, she said the next day. This Salinger, he's a short story guy. And he knows how to write about kids. This book, though, it's too long. Gets kinds of monotonous. They depress me”( James Stern ). All of this really is one hundred percent accurate, but that is how teenagers talk and type. They don't try to compose a sentence and structure it well enough to have it make sense, and along with that vulgar language is cool and short and sweet calls to the teenager. Adults really couldn't enjoy it because it was to childish. Along with these ideas of being too childish, Holden, who is the main character, really does have the same attitude to everything in the entire story. It never really changes and gets really old after the first few chapters and never changes until the end of the book where it made no difference what so

Open Document