# Guide to Enjoying Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Vol. 1

By **John P. Anderson**

- ISBN-13: 9781627341875
- Publisher: Universal Publishers
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 284
- Published: 8 Oct 2017
- Language: en
- Categories: Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature

## About this book

This non-academic author presents a study of Salinger’s major writings, a  study designed to enhance the reader’s enjoyment even in a reread. The  study is an analysis of their artistic structure, especially Salinger’s  sophisticated use of the narrator’s voice or voices. Catcher comes off  as the Hindu Connection, Franny and Zooey as Take Out Zen and Raise High  as Kabbalah Reception. The Hindu connection structures what happens to Holden in Catcher, and  fast as take out Zen structures what happens to Franny in Franny and  Zooey. Principal tenants of Kabbalah influence and structure important  aspects of the story Raise High the Roofbeam, Carpenters, particularly  the lack of civil reception of “others” at the wedding reception. These  choices were no doubt influenced by Salinger’s experiments with  different forms of spirituality.  Salinger apparently came to the conclusion that your spiritual soul lies  in your individual identity, a conclusion Joyce and others had reached  earlier from connection with Eastern Spirituality. Direct versions of  Jesus and Buddha dwell within you just waiting to be discovered. You  don’t need an escort.  For many young readers in the 20th century, these stories made up the  New Testament, the new gospel as to what was important in life values.  Read here how and why they were so powerful.

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