Neha's Notebook

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is one of those books that one may read over and over again, and never get bored. It clangs and jingles with the outpourings of sentiments, sentiments which erupt from the pellmell of the juvenile years in the life of a boy named Holden Caufield. Written in a 1st person narrative, the book gushes with the tohubohu of his adolescence and boyhood. Irked by who he calls as “phonies”, aka his fellow schoolmates, Holden decides to leave his school Pencey Prep. Stepping into the rubbly arena of the outer world, Holden seems to feel alienated, disoriented and miffy at its absurdity. The text that follows in the book elaborates upon these emotions in a tangle of brilliantly-crafted interior monologue that turns out to be utterly savoury to the reading sense. The book features an epistolary format, which means that it is written in the form of letters addressed to the reader and divided into chapters....

  “It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.” - JD Salinger   Just like the sun in this quotation written by him, JD Salinger too was a man of privacy. He would come out only when he felt like, which means not much if at all. Famous for his square-shooting lines and a solitary lifestyle, Mr. Salinger produced a slim yet rich body of work during his lifetime. Though, it is said that he might have dozens of novels unpublished, still locked away in some nook of his house. He is best remembered for his novel The Catcher in the Rye, based on the loss of childhood innocence of a boy named Holden Caufield and for a collection of short stories that featured his fictional character sets called The Glass Family. JD Salinger’s Journey As a Writer (in brief) JD Salinger began writing short stories during years of his secondary school. Thereafter, stumbling and tripping from drama to business to theatre, Salinger finally found ...