J.D. Salinger: Short Stories J.D. Salinger

Composers draw on their political and social milieu in the representations of people and politics which align with their contextual purpose and hence, such representations are inherently manipulated to serve a particular agenda. Such is...

The process of discovery is often catalyzed by a provocative environment which compels the individual’s opposition to existing values, engendering the realization of one’s own ideas, inherently encouraging the formation of renewed perceptions of...

By the 1950s, classical stylings in literature had been all but abandoned by American writers. Poets and novelists were bent on revolutionizing literature by rejecting traditional stylings and standards. After seemingly every arbitrary limit to...

Although sometimes minute details are as they appear, in the short stories “Seven People Dancing” by Langston Hughes and “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J. D. Salinger the minute details paint a larger picture of social alienation. Through the...