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Claim:"where his Zen interests coalesced with his emerging themes, where he gave new life to the American short story." Argument: J.D.Salinger reveals what the new American life with the characters and families who chooses to make in his novels. Evidence: "Thornton Wilder published a magazine piece on the declining moral standards of America's youth, and John Cheever, as if to chronicle these uncertain times, published The Enormous Radio and Other Stories--featuring such emblematic titles as "The Season of Divorce," "O City of Broken Dreams," and "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor." Nine Stories tapped into this ambivalent milieu [(being in a area where there is a positive and negitive feeling towards one person)]: the stories dealt with genius, spiritual integrity, moral corruption, and the occasional ability of innocence to transform our lives."
J.D. Salinger - 0 views
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Argument: J.D.Salinger is not a post fruedian writer in his work.
Claim: "Salinger,too, is post-freudian and to analyze him for his readers in Freudian terms is meaningless."
Evidence: "I think a modern novelist expects the reader to assume the Freudian ideas with his as a part of the general intelegence wich he brings to bear on (or wich he opposes to) the reality that he presents in his novel". He presents that Holden is a Frueudian idea. In reality he is just the opposite. He is selfish but he does not use his motivation for desired pleasures.
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religion in order to portray comfort. "
Arrgument: Salinger does use religon to provide confort towards his characters.
Evidence: "In Salingers Nine Stories
Franny Glass keeps reciting the "Jesus Prayer" to cope with the
suicide of her brother Seymour (Bloom in Bryfonski and Senick 69).
Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for Franny.
The prayer stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation.
Franny would be lost if their was no prayer. (Bryfonski and Senick
71). Salinger shows us comfort in Catcher in the Rye. Holden
Caufield, the protagonist, is very much in despair for losing his
girlfriend, so Caufield reads a passage in the Bible. This helps
Holden change his outlook on life (Salzberg 75). Holden was all alone
at this point and had no one to turn back on, until he found the Bible
(Salzberg 76)."