Influences of J.D. Salinger
A major influence of J.D. Salinger's work is his childhood. He grew up in the beautiful borrough of Manhatten in the great New York City. When J.D. was thirteen years old he was sent to a preperatory boys school called McBurney School for Boys in the Upper West side. This fact in Salingers life is very similar to that of Holden Caufield, a charactor in the infamous novel "The Catcher in the Rye". The prep academy is relatable to those acedemys that Holden kept getting expelled from. McBurney school was actually mentioned in the novel when the Prency Prep fencing team is on it's way to meet at McBurney, only having to go back home because Holden forgot the fencing equiptment on the train to McBurney. After two years at Mcburney, Salinger transferred to Valley Forge Millitary Acedemy in Wayne, Pennsylvania. J.D. Sallinger used Valley Forge as a model for Pency Prep, another school mentioned in "The Catcher in the Rye". Salinger included details about Valley Forge such as the dorm layout to the names of the students. There was even a boy named Ackley, also a character in "Catcher", who attended Valley Forge with J.D. Sallinger. Some of Salingers short stories take place in a war, or are about a war, including "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut". "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut" explores the pain of death from war. J.D. Salinger's time serving in the army may have been a main inspiration to that story. J.D. Salinger's work seems to have been most influenced by his own experiances and life.
List of J.D. Salingers most notable works
*The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
*Nine Stories, a collection of J.D. Salingers best short stories (1953)
*Franny and Zooey (1961)
*Raise the High Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction, another collection of short stories (1963)
*Nine Stories, a collection of J.D. Salingers best short stories (1953)
*Franny and Zooey (1961)
*Raise the High Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour: An Introduction, another collection of short stories (1963)