Catcher In The Rye Trauma

In J.D. Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye, and his short story “For Esme with Love and Squalor” intelligence is interconnected with trauma and reveals Salinger's views on what intelligence really is. A major theme throughout Catcher in the Rye is a character's intelligence. Holden uses a character's intelligence to define their character as a person, specifically how a character deals with trauma. In “For Esme with Love and Squalor” a character's intelligence also directly relates to that character's ability to overcome and cope with trauma from a different perspective. This theme reveals itself constantly throughout Salinger’s writing and is a large part of his style. In Salinger's writing a character's ability to overcome trauma is defined