J.D. SALINGER

background

• Born January 1, 1919
• J.D.-Jerome David
• McBurney School and Valley Forge Military Academy
• New York University 
• Vienna 

Background cont.

• Ursinus College 
• Colombia, Whit Burnett, and Story Magazine
• Early Publications

military service

• 1942 WWII
• Sylvia- nervous breakdown 

aFTER THE WAR

• 1946 return to NY
• Catcher in the Rye 1951
• 1955 Claire Douglas

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AFTER CATCHER IN THE RYE

• Moved to Cornish, New Hampshire
• Cut off from the public eye
• "Hapworth 16, 1924"

Later life

• Divorce- 1966
• "An 18-year-old Looks Back on Life" Joyce Maynard 
• 1998- Maynard's Memoir
• Letters 
• Ellen Joyce

Later life cont.

• Remarried to Colleen O' Neill 
• Died on January 27, 2010
• 10 unpublished novels locked away in his house

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish"

PLOT

• Opening- Muriel 
• WWII and Seymour 
• Seymour and Sybil 
• Bananafish

Story Analysis

• Setting
• Characterization
• Point of View
• Dialogue

salinger writing style

• Dialogue
• Human Interaction
• Third Person Narrative

sTORY AND SALINGER

• Seymour is a war veteran
• Salinger is a war veteran
• emotional unstableness 
• nervous breakdown

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