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Means By Which Salinger Characters Pursue Happiness
1,082 wordsJ. D. Salinger in his stories portrayed people who don't fit in with the traditional American culture of the 1950 s. The post war society was believed to be happy as standard of living seemed higher, American technology was soaring and, politically, and economically America played a superior position in the world. Though there were some radicals who were not contented with such a situation, they couldnt accept a conforming way of live but they focused not only on a comfortable but meaningless li...
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J D Salinger World War Ii
1,997 wordsMany critics consider J. D. Salinger a very controversial writer, for the subject matters that he writes... J. D. Salinger? s works were generally written during two time periods. The first time period was during World War II, and the second time period was during the 1960? s. Critics feel that the works during the 1960 time period were very inappropriate, because of the problems for which he wrote. The main characters were generally misfits of society. In most of his works, he has the protagoni...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Vol Detroit Mi Gale
2,078 wordsA recurring theme in J. D. Salinger's stories concerns people who dont fit in with the traditional American culture. Salinger's most successful tales are of those who cannot adjust to the real world. His main characters are super-intelligent humans who must choose between the phony real world (American culture) and a morally pure, nice world. Salinger's misfit hero[es] (Levine 498), unlike the rest of society, are caught in the struggle between a superficial world and a conscious morality. In th...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
1,336 wordsThe images of war remain imbedded in an individuals mind, making it difficult for anyone who has faced the horrors of war to re assimilate themselves within society. People who have never faced the horrible images lack the understanding and compassion needed for a war veteran to reestablish themselves. The alienation an individual suffers from family and friends thrusts them further into a world of confusion, forcing them to take drastic actions to find peace. The effects of war have the capacit...
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J D Salinger Quest For Happiness
1,014 wordsA recurring theme in J. D. Salinger's stories concerns people who dont fit in with the traditional American culture. His main characters are super-intelligent humans who must choose between the phony real world (American culture) and a morally-pure, nice world. Salinger's characters unlike the rest of society, are caught in the struggle between a superficial world and a conscious morality... They do not conform to the material happiness; but search for a spiritual happiness. The works of J. D. S...
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