Where Did You Go JD?

          J.D Salinger liked to write for his own pleasure. He felt that publishing was an invasion of his privacy. J.D. Salinger could be considered one of the greatest, and most contraversial authors of our time. We only know limited things about him and his work because he has been pushed off into the woods due to betrayal by his loved ones, and people close to him. Negative criticism of his work has also contributed to making him leave.  In 1953 he moved into a modest hilltop home in tiny, population 1,268, Cornish, N.H. He hasn't agreed to an interview since he spoke to a high school student later that year, and he hasn't published a word since 1965. One the many reasons quite frankly the main reason for his retreat from society is his famous novel "The Catcher in the Rye". In this novel the main character Holden Caufield, most recognized for his desire to protect childhood innocence, said  "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”  It is to my knowledge that people actually began to try to contact him in various ways because his book was very popular and they thought it to be very influential and in his eyes invade his privacy. Throughout the book a lot of events that occur are similar to those of his real life such as when Holden reaches the brink of his nervous breakdown and plans to head west and live in a log cabin.
          From the beginning I think J.D Salinger was just a very private person and that is why he went into "hiding". Some people are just that way in that they are to themselves and very private and you cannot fault a person for being that way. So where did he go? The publishing of the catcher in the rye in 1951 marked the beginning of his seclusion from the world where he lived in the wood in a shed guarded with a shotgun, and guard dogs behind high walls.