Authors values and attitudes - The Catcher in the Rye

The first question, what does the writing reveal about the author's values and attitudes?, is a very hard question to answer over the book, The Catcher in the Rye.  The book is not a biography, but I auto biography I believe (I am pretty sure that is what kind of book this is).  Anyways this is a hard question to answer because J.D. Salinger wrote the book about a different person.  It was not about an event in history or anything like that.  However, there are some things that you can pick out that do reveal something about the author.  One is that he was not fond of people who pretended to be something they are not.    “Everybody was all dressed up, because it was Sunday, and that made it worse. But the worse part was that you could tell they all wanted to go to the movies.I couldn’t stand looking at them. I can understand somebody going to the movies because there’s nothing else to do, but when somebody really wants to go, and even walks fast so as to get there quicker, then it depresses hell out of me” (Salinger 116).  You see it everywhere you go, and I am also one of those people who do not like those people who pretend to be something that they are not.  I see it all the time in highschool and it bugs me just as much as it bugs J.D. Salinger.  The other thing that I picked out of the book, was that he did not like school.  He does spend a good time talking about how much the Holden Caufield did not like school, so it gives the reader a good idea that perhaps he was not one that liked school, but who really does?  Although he is not really talking about himself, J.D. Salinger expresses his feelings through the story of Holden's adventure.  This book was written in first person, from Holden Caufield's point of view.

Bibliography

Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. Print.