I am
officially on my last blog for The
Catcher in the Rye!! I find question eight and question five. They both deal with events in the novel that
reflects history. This blog is going to
be very similar to the blog I wrote for question five. The two things I wrote about in it were the
card game Canasta and the Radio
City Music
Hall
The Catcher in the Rye was written in
the late 1940s- early 1950s. During this
time period, gramophone records also known as vinyl records became very popular
in the United States . Even though nothing is said about records in
the novel, they were a big thing while J.D. Salinger was writing The Catcher in the Rye. For all we know, Salinger could have listened
to a record that inspired him to write this novel. Records can have music programmed on it or it
can have people talking. I believe that
Salinger was listening to a person talking about mental issues, in which he was
inspired to write about Holden Caulfield.
This is a big stretch but I think it makes sense.
In The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
does not mention many details about the various groups in society in his
novel. I can only thing of one thing,
the relationship between popular and unpopular.
Stradlater is the image of a popular person. “He always walked around in his bare torso
because he thought he had a damn good build.
He did, too. I have to admit
that” (Salinger 26). The typical popular
person has a good body and likes to flaunt it.
As for the unpopular image, Ackley is the perfect model. “He was probably the only guy in the whole
dorm, besides me, that wasn’t down at the game.
He hardly went anywhere” (Salinger 19).
Ackley likes to stay in his room and is boring.
I believe
that J.D. Salinger was influenced by his own childhood. He may have had a rough childhood where he
did not do well in school and had an unloving family.
"Gramophone
Record." Wikipedia.
Wikimedia Foundation, 22 July 2012. Web. 24 July 2012.
Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye Boston :
Little, Brown, 1951. Print.
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