Catcher in the Rye and Walt Whitman

Catcher in the Rye and Walt Whitman

The book and poems written that have been the most influential in many peoples lives are the ones written by Walt Whitman and J.D. Salinger. J.D. Salinger is the author of Catcher in the Rye and Walt Whitman writes poems. The stories told can relate to some of our own life experiences. Also they have different meanings and one can perceive them differently from another.

In the book Catcher in the Rye there is a boy named Holden Cualfield and he is about to be kicked out of a school for failing all his classes. He went to a private school called Pency and the night he left he got into a fight with one of his friends. It was about a girl he knew from childhood, his friend was supposed to be going out on a date with her. When he found out he got mad instantly because he knew what he did to girls when they were on dates. He was a womanizer, only trying to get in there pants.

Also He has a little sister named Pheobe. Anyone who has a younger brother or sister can relate to Holden as being overprotective. In the story he is sitting in the hallway at her school waiting for her to come pick up the note he left her at the front desk and he sees the F word written on the wall and he quickly erases it thinking that one of the kids might see it. And then he wondered what would happen if his little sister had seen it and she would say it and then ask what it meant. And some bully of a kid would tell her and she wouldn’t be as innocent anymore.

Walt Whitman