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st and most sincere paci-
fsts are combat veteransand there may well be a direct connection between
Salinger’s experience of war at its most ferocious and Holden’s description of
himself as “a pacifstif you want to know the truth.”
But there are no combat scenes in Te Catcher in the Rye. A brief men-
tion of D. B.’s military service is the most explicit indication the novel gives
that World War II even took place. But perhaps it is the professional writer
D. B. who himself supplies the best clue to reading the book as a war novel.
Holden well remembers the occasion on which Allie suggests to D. B. that
at least one advantage of D. B.’s time in the army must be that it gave him a
good deal of material about which to write; D. B. replies by asking Allie to
compare Rupert Brooke with Emily Dickinson and then to say who ranks
as the greater war poet. Te correct answeras Allie sees at onceis of course
Emily Dickinson. If Dickinson is indeed the great poet of the American
Civil War—and iffor that matterVirginia Woolf’s
Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
with its unforgettable portrait of Septimus Smithis one of the great World
War I novels—then in much the same way Te Catcher in the Rye can be read
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