Ersa Tri Mundi Rahayu , 2211412031 (2019) American Society’s Lifestyle and Disillusionment as the Effect of World War II Reflected in JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

This study was conducted to examine American Society’s Lifestyle and Disillusionment as the Effect of World War II Reflected in JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. Therefore, this study was aimed to present the manifestation of American’s Society Lifestyle and Disillusionment in the story. The study was done using a descriptive qualitative method. In order to discover the result and found out some alternative meanings beyond the text, the writer governed sociology of literature as the approach that was supported by Marxism Theory by Karl Marx. The object of the study was JD Salinger’s novel entitled The Catcher in the Rye. To sum up, the World War II brings economic boom to the United States. This economic advancement affect most of the social aspect of its society. It shaped the society as the consumer society. As well made the society became more religious because the situation was just fine to organized religion in peacefully. Holden Caulfield acts as the symbol of disillusionment of those American Society that fail to meet the conformity of the era. Holden reflects it by being different

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