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Kimberly Farley on 09 Dec 10Argument: Salinger's greatest struggle has been his search for right living and how to define the right path through his art. Claim: Salinger's characters have a great dissastisfaction with those around them. Evidence: "Salinger's art, especially the later fiction, is an attempt to dramatize his own version of right living. Ultimately his 'silence' becomes the culminating gesture when his life becomes the message, a testament of the values his art hitherto professed. "