Connections to Salinger

This article explains a lot about Holden's character and how he might have been developed. To me, it sounds like Salinger simply wrote about his own childhood through the eyes of a different character. He flunked out of many schools, Holden flunked out of many schools. He was dissatisfued with the world, Holden seemed to be dissatisfied with the worls. He was tired of himself, and I feel Holden eventually gets tired of himself. So I made a lot of connections to my interpretation of Holden. There's not much to connect with Salinger about. He was a seemingly unhappy man who wanted to be shut out from the world. And I myself can't relate to that at all. I can get wanting to have some private time to yourself, but an entire life of it? But because of his unhappiness, I can connect to him as a writer. I now understand why Holdens character is the way he is. As I stated earlier I strongly believe that Salinger was writing as himself through the eyes of someone else. The book clearly came from an unhappy place. Despite all the drab and for lack of a better word unhappiness, it is a spectacular book and makes for a VERY interesting read.

My Connection to Holden

In this story, Holden is reminded of an old friend, Jane, when his roommate goes on a date with her. He and Jane had at one point in life been great friends, they lived down the street from eachother! So overall he was remembering and wanting to reconnect with Jane. I can connect to this. I have made many friends throughout my life. Some who stuck, and some who haven't. I made a lot of these friends doing shows. One particular friend i made was named Charlie. We were in the show Oliver! together. He was Oliver and I was in the childrens chorus. A bunch of the kids were a few years older and there were only a few our age (Alex Behrens was one of them!) Anyway, I had given him my email adress at the end of the show (that was the cool thing to do back then) and expected to keep in touch, but that didn't exactly happen. I was a bit sad, but life goes on! Some 5 or 6 years later, I was in a show with Charlies brother, Sam! Through Sam, I reconnected with Charlie!! I added him on myspace, not knowing if he'd remember me, and to my suprise he did! We chatted frequently and rekindled the friendship! However, for whatever reason, I would get nervous everytime I saw him, and would never go say hi. He'd always say "I would have loved to have seen you," and then I'd feel bad (just like holden didn't say hi to jane). Charlie and I dont chat as often now, but still talk on occassion!!! So I can connect to Holden in the sense of reconnecting with an old friend!

I MESSED UP!

This is my J.D. Salinger redo. I think his book would maybe negatively looked upon. It mentioned in the article that his last story for the New Yorker wasn't his best. He was kind of a kook, so I think maybe his story would be kooky too, which is never very enjoyable. At least in my opinion.

JD Salinger's Unread Work

This article to me was rather interesting. So many people work so hard their entire lives to achieve fame, and never do so, and here is a man who did more than achieve it, and he was ungrateful. And the whole drinking his own pee?! Really dude, that's straight up WEIRD! I don't know how his work would be looked at today. Clearly, he wrote a classic, so maybe they would be good. But considering his last story for the New Yorker was a bit on the strange side, maybe they'd be a flop. I guess we'll find out in time...