In “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” Muriel embodies this shallow culture of consumerism. Ad agencies also began to spend more and more following WWII-some advertisers even taking to television rather than radio to support their brands-further fueling the growing atmosphere of materialism. Thanks to newly developed technologies during the war, many new products came on the market, such as nylon, plastics, Styrofoam, the aerosol spray can, and more. The end of World War II in 1945 saw sharp uptick in American consumerism-in the face of a new abundance of jobs and higher wages, coupled with the shortage of products available for purchase in years’ past, Americans were suddenly eager to spend their money. During World War II, product shortages and rationing of goods such as rubber and fuel meant that there was a stunning lack of consumer goods available to purchase. In “A Perfect Day for Bananafish,” Salinger’s World War II experience is reflected in Seymour’s longing for his pre-war innocence his cynical view of adult society his psychological agony and, of course, his eventual suicide. World War II robbed millions of young men and women of their youthful innocence, and Salinger himself witnessed the slaughter of thousands at Normandy, one of the war’s bloodiest battles. In his final years, he continued to avoid contact with the media and ceased publishing any new works. Salinger, however, hated his sudden fame and retired from New York to Cornish, New Hampshire, where he lived until his death in 2010. In 1951, he published his only full-length novel, The Catcher in the Rye, which rocketed Salinger into the public eye. He went on to publish many stories in The New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and others from 1941 to 1948. Salinger continued to write during the war, and in 1940 he published his first short story in Story magazine. Army’s infantry division and served in combat, including the invasion of Normandy in 1944. During World War II, Salinger ended up in the U.S. He took a fiction-writing class in 1939 at Columbia that cemented the dabbling in writing he had done since his early teens. He went on to enroll in several colleges, including New York University and Columbia, though he never graduated.
After struggling in several prep schools, Salinger attended Valley Forge Military Academy from 1934 to 1936. His father was a successful Jewish cheese importer, and his mother was Scotch-Irish Catholic. Jerome David Salinger grew up on Park Avenue in Manhattan, New York.
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