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Holden: Well, Salinger I think
that you base your book on your personal experiences so, which ones are in the
novel?
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Salinger: Yes you are right; the
principal experience I represent in the novel is when I was asked to leave a New York prep school because of poor
grades.
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Holden: Really, that is very
interesting, and that experiences have a relation in my creation… I mean, how
did you represent your experience in the novel?
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Salinger: I represent my experience
in the novel by you, because both of us were expelled from school, and I also
should mention that we both don’t feel comfortable with the society.
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Holden: Yes, that is true because
they kicked me out. I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation, on
account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all, but
let’s change the idea, why you create the novel?... I want to say the reasons
of creating it and all.
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Salinger: Because I like to write. I love to write. But I write just
for myself and my own pleasure.
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Holden: There was a personal
influence in the creation of the novel?
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Salinger: The principal influence I
had in the creation of the novel was the shock that I got with my service in US army, in 1942, serving with a unit
that saw heavy fighting as it carved its way from the D-day landings to Berlin,
losing more men along the way than it had started out with.
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Holden: So there are many
references of your life in the novel that make me think that we may have
similar personalities, could you tell me?
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Salinger: Yes
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Holden: In which aspects we are
similar?
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Salinger: As I told you in the
beginning both of us feel out of the mass.
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Holden: you say that both of us
feel out of the mass and all... You are right, so I have a doubt, if we have
similar personality we will have similar attitudes, right?
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Salinger: Right, because like for
example we both have the similar attitude, when I was betrayed and when you
didn’t watch the school match, because we both get away.
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Holden: Well Salinger I have to go,
but I will like to ask you my last doubt, how are your beliefs shown in the
novel?
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Salinger: Ok, I will be brief with you,
the main idea I shown in the novel is that I hate the liars and this idea is in
the novel by you.
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Holden: Yes that is true because I
hate phony people.
