First published in the New Yorker on January 31, 1948, and later the first story in the 1953 collection Nine Stories, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” begins with Muriel Glass sitting in a Florida hotel room fielding a telephone call… Read More ›
J. D. Salinger
Analysis of J. D. Salinger’s Stories
The main characters of J. D. Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010), neurotic and sensitive people, search unsuccessfully for love in a metropolitan setting. They see the phoniness, egotism, and hypocrisy around them. There is a failure of… Read More ›
Self-Reflexive Novels and Novelists
After a few minutes of reading stories that are not selfreflexive, readers sometimes forget what they are doing and feel transported into the world of the book. Considering this experience naïve, authors of self-reflexive fictions thwart it by such devices… Read More ›
Analysis of J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger’s (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010) characters are always extremely sensitive young people who are trapped between two dimensions of the world: love and “squalor.” The central problem in most of his fiction is not finding a… Read More ›