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Breaking the Code to the Catcher in the Rye: How is this book about WW2?

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message 1: by Cosmic (last edited Feb 03, 2015 03:07PM) (new)

Cosmic Arcata | 207 comments Mod
Many people read the The Catcher in the Rye and questioned the validity of this being a classic. It at first appeared to me that if you want to get into the cult area just throw a few cuss words and sex scenes and an adolescent ad bingo you can't go wrong. But even this does not explain the "point". What was the point of this novel? Why was Salinger so passionate about writing it for 10 years? Who was it written to?

I purpose that this book is an allegory about war, power and money.

Seems these things have a lot in common. Salinger makes a case in the Catcher that wars are created to make billions and to change territories and to wield power over masses and to kill, of course.


message 2: by Cosmic (last edited Feb 03, 2015 03:43PM) (new)

Cosmic Arcata | 207 comments Mod
The book has so many references and that it resembles an allegory.

The names in the story give it away that something is hidden and that if you possess this truth you might be "saved", thus the name The Catcher In The Rye (Rhine, or the three power of axis, where they grow rye)...

Holden is the name of a car/company in Australia, bought by GM in the depression, to make war supplies.

Caulfield read the first page in David Copperfield

Titchner...when Holden is trying to get a good goodbye.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

As well as Zambezi name when Holden wants quite "good goodbye" and in the The Thirty-Nine Steps
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

D.B. = Deschutes Bank

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/stockd...


Jaguar top of the food chain and "an English job"
The "madman" Hitler..."years"
Christmas time (when we entered the war)
Allie = allies
Stradlater Strad-later. Violin later. He, Holden wanted to "play" the prostitute because it was supposed to be like playing a violin. America helps Germany build industry and then enters the war strategically at the end
Selma (a Masonic Lodge in North Carolina that lays the corner stone for the lodge in Alexandria, Virginia where we built our military complex. It was laid in 1922 and the lodge is Lodge 22.
Thurmer the first phony listed. It is the name of a chisel that "molds"....in the Masonic tradition.
Spencer - coined the phrase "survival of the fittest". He is the History Teacher because history repeats itself.
Ackley a reference to Romeo and Juliet. A reference to the priest that marries and then gives a poison to Juliet. So the church is used ....look at Holden's take on Romeo and Juliet. Also look at The Return of the Native Holden says he likes the least likeable character.
Ducks....was a slang name forhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUKW
Also made by GM
Ed Bank-y drives a Buick also made by GM
ED CONSOLIDATED EDISON INC http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/stockd...

Which he lets Stradlater who plays on the "god damn football team" football was a simulation of war. It is about propelling the ball in a guarded territory in order to take advantage of the other teams position or acquiring land (yardage).

Jane - a military supply catalog.
Phoebe - feeble. She get on a beaten up old horse and goes around and around and when there is a financial crisis Holden puts on his hat (its a people shooting hat, l shoot people). A reference to the book that every one would have read that Salinger was writing to because it is a children's classic allegory called Bambi
Read the History of this book and story line and you will see this "isn't your Disney movie book". Banned by Hitler.


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