History 2

For this paper you are asked to engage J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Ryewith other course materials – namely lecture and SFAreadings.  In many ways Holden Caufield represents a growing discontent with 1950 America’s “culture of conformity.”  How is this so?  In answering this you need to discuss the establishment of a post-war U.S. that accounts for this “culture of conformity” and place the Salinger narrative in this context