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This article describes the works of author Jerome David Salinger. Many of the stories published in various magazines and journals--Colliers, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Story, Kansas Review, New Yorker--during the 1940s reflect the influence of Salinger's experiences in the U.S. Army during World War II. In 1951, he published The Catcher in the Rye, an extremely popular novel whose sixteen-year-old narrator, Holden Caulfield, has spoken to and for generations of teenagers ever since. Nine Stories is a collection of short stories, eight of which were originally published in the New Yorker. Characters in several stories have been broken psychologically by war experiences. The children tend to be extremely smart and oddly fragile. The tone is often cynical and the narrative stance is slightly withdrawn. |
