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JD, DB, Sonny, Sunny, and Holden DOCUMENT RESUME ED 033 931 TE 001 567 AUTHOR Eucharle, Edward R. TITLE J.E., L.E., Sonny, Sunny, and Eclden. INSTITUTION New Ycrk State English Council, Oswego. Pub Date Eec 6b Note fp. Journal Cit The English Record; v19 n2 F54-8 Eec 1968 EDRS Price EEFS Price MF-$0.25. HC-$0.4C Descriptors American Literature, *Authors, Autotioaraphies, *Characterization (Literature), *English Instruction, literary Analysis, *Novels, Personal Interests, *Short Stcries, Twentieth Century literature Identifiers Catcher in the Rye, *J E Salincer Abstract Several people have tried, unsuccessfully, to learn the facts atcut J. D. Salinger's life.The little iEformaticn available from secondarysources atcut Salinger indicates that "The Catcher in the Rye" has autobiographical elements. Salinger's life parallels Holden's ficticnal adventurer in that Salinger (1)was born and reared through early childhood inNew York City, (2) attended the McEurney Schcol mentioned in "Catcher"and Valley Forge Military Academy, which servedas the prctctype fcr Holden's Fencey Prep,(3) was unconventional, (4) spent time in Maine and hadan incrdinate interest in the Museum cf Natural History,(5) twisted half-truths tc let people relieve what they wanted, (6)was charitable with money,(7) lcved innocence, (8)was both interested in and ccntemEtucus cf the film industry, and (9)desired tc live away from scciety. (MP) I THE It r.... ENGLISH RECORD 1 MN Official Publication of theNew York State English Council Copyright New York State English Council1961 Editor: Robert W. Blake,State University College, Brockport reNAssociate Editor: Robert J. 1 Gemmett, State University College, Brockport ON Associate Editor: Elizabeth J. Drake,Binghamton CIVol. XIX DECEMBER, 1968 CI No. 2 Up/ ARTICLES THE LATE JOHN P. MARQUAND:AN ESSAY IN BIOGRAPHY John J. Gross 2 JACK LONDON: THE PARADOXOF INDIVIDUALIST[ Paul Deane 15 UNDERGRADUATES AND "THOSE NOXIOUS HERIOC Comers" .......David P. Demarest, Jr. 20 FORMALIZED WRITING CURRICULUMS?No! Richard Corbin 40 Discussion STRATEGIES INTHE TEACHING OF Horinza' "THE Wniosovsz" Edgar H. Knapp 46 J.D., D.B., SONNY, Smarr,AND Nowlin....... ......._ Edward R. Ducharms 54 ESSENTIAL bats you SECONDARY&nom Busman= Comm Sheila Schwartz 60 FICTION THE Musics:mums Frank Sargeant 27 POETRY THIS TARANTULA AN OW MAN IN WINTER Hollis Summers 12 13 DEPART "PEINSS1011 TO IENIONCEMO Ca'Editorial COPT1161110 TIMBAL HAS NEI GRANTS UN-SCREWING THE SCREWED Ur STUD$y 9hu,, 1 _siH.e..6. Book Reviews WHAT HATH MAN WROUGHT: TO AO ONMIZATIONS ONION Mumposo's MEGA3Licnnig............. mmi Awn= win lit Y.S. 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Out...of-state subscription: SUL Individual : $4.00 an- earning salMeriptions and advertising should isms: $1.4111 each. Correspondence r- be addromed to John C. Fisher.Executive Secretary. State University College. 011.41.0. New York111126. t Se- IL MOW Of NIA011. MAINIt WM OM! NMI= NIS DOOM NMS ma 1111011111.11 BACTO£5 ttUIVl11101111E HEN 111 0111111A11011 OMNI* 11.101115 01 VIEW 01 0/111015 S11113 10 1101 EMU MHO VIMOffla 01 MOON . 1011011 Of 1011CY. J. D., D. B., SONNY, SUNNY, AND HOLDEN Edward R. Ducharme J. D. Salinger is reported to have becomevery angry when questioned about autobiographical elements in the short story "For Esme : With Love and Squalor." During the conversation that followed he denied that anything he hadever written was autobiographical. On another occasion Salinger authorized the "fact" that hewas living in Westport, Connecticut, when he was actually living in Cornish, N. H.1 Years earlierwriting to Es- quire in a note accompanying "ThisSandwich Has No May- onaise" (a story in which the death of Holden Caulfieldis re- ported)Salinger himself asserted that hisown Air Corps back- ground had helped in the writing of the story. In thesame com- ment he indicated that he wished toserve in a chorus line after the War was over.2 W. J. Weatherby, writing in the Twentieth Century, quotes Salingeras having said: "It is my subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymityobscurity,are the second-most valuable propertyon loan to him during his personal years." 3 t The point of all the above is that there is little from Salinger himself on his own life, particularly from 1951 onwards,or, shortly after the publication of The Catcher in the Rye.Even those comments given during the earlieryears, some of which are referred t6 above, are a mixture of half-truth and whimsey, difficult sources for the biographer. Yet,in the twentieth cen- tury, no man canescape detection altogether ;some facts emerge about even the most careful. From those about Salinger can be pieced together a small amount of data relevant to the study of The Catcher in the Rye froman autobiographical stand- point. One point must be stressed in readingall of the following: almost every assertion about Salinger's life is froma secondary source and must be regarded as such. The available factsare as rare and as puzzling as Salinger's stories. There have been several attempts but fewsuccesses in the search for facts. Perhaps the mostwidely used source is Wil- liam Maxwell's brief biography appearingin the July, 1951, I Book-of-the-Month Club News. Two of themore ambitious at- ' Ernest Haveman, "The Search for the Mysterious I. D. Salinger," 1961), p. 129. Life (November 3, "Backstage with Esquire." Esquairu (October, 11145).D. 114. *W. J. Weatherby, 'Rejection World," Twentieth Century (Spring, 1962),p. 72. Edward Ducharme is author of several teaching guides in theLife Education Reprint Series, including "Sanger-Updike,""Shakespeare at 400," "Our Town," and "The Art of Reviewing." He iscurrently Dir,ctor of the Master of Arts in Teaching Programat Trinity Col- ii` lege, Washington, D. C. 54 THE ENGLISH RECORD tempts are the Time and Life articles already mentioned.These less than complete accounts have received considerableattention. Henry Anatole Grunwald hasa lengthly biographical section in his Sanger: A Critical and Personal Portrait, themajor por- tion of which is a reprinting of the Time andLife articles and references to the Maxwell piece. The scarcity of materialcan be most readily seen whenone realizes that even the learned critics have relied upon news magazine articles anda book club notice, sources frequently maligned in literary research. In addition to the above there is a briefpassage by Salinger himself in the First Supplement to Twentieth Century Authors.Finally, one canif diligent enoughdiscovera few more things by study- ing old issues of Esquire and Story magazirxs.These are the worthwhile sources. The attempt to relate the facts to the novelreveals little in the way of extended and extensivematerial. The simplest facts come first. Salinger and Holden were both born in New York City and spent their earlyyears there. Both attended several sec- ondary schools and left at leastone for academic reasons. Salin- ger attended the Mc Burney School when hewas thirteen, leav- ing at the end ofone year. The Mc Burney School appears by name in the novel : It is this school that Pencey Prepwas sched- uled to have a fencing meet withon the day that Holden left the foils on the subway. Related to thispoint is Grunwald's asser- tion that Salinger was atone time the manager of the fencing team in one of the schools he attended.4Salinger attended the McBurney School because of his parents'concern over his work. Holden was also placed in several schools. After the McBurney School experience,Salinger went to Val- ley Forge Military Academy in Wayne,Pennsylvania, the same state in which Pencey Prep is located.The two schools are alike in other respects. Holden speaksof the "crazy cannon" from Revolutionary War days; Jack Skow, in his Time story, noted that Valley Forge Military Academywas "heavily fortified with boxwood hedges and RevolutionaryWar cannon." 5 Holden is wryly amused by the school motto: "Since 1882 we have been molding boys into splendid, clear-thinkingyoung men." The school's pride in its motto is evident inHolden's negative attitude towards it. Both the motto itself and Holden'sattitude have prob- able counterparts. Certainly ValleyForge's motto is similar in intent : "From the embattled fields ofValley Forge went men who built America; from the trainingfields of Valley Forge go men who preserve America." 6 The 1965 Handbook of Private 'Henry A. Grunwald,Sanger: 1962), p. 18. Critical and Personal Portrait (New York: Harper, s Jack Skow. "SonnyAn Introduction," Time. September 16. 1961. p. 88. Porter Sargent, TheHandbook of Private &hook (Boston: 1966),p. 8. DECEMBER, 1968 55 Schools has commercial inserts from over 150 boys schools ; only two others in addition to Valley Forge reprint their motto. There have been some attempts to find the boys who might have served as models for the characters in the novel. Skow states that some like happenings may have occurred at Valley Forge but speculates no further. Grunwald claims that a boy did run awaynot Salinger himself, who was too conventional in his revolts for thatand ended up in a West Coast mental in- stitution.
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