For example, Holden is expelled from several schools throughout his life because of his grades before being sent to Pencey Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania and grew up in New York. . According to “Biography,” “After failing at McBurney School near his home on the Upper West Side of New York, he was sent by his parents to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania. » Obviously, Salinger was trying to make his audience understand his connection to Holden by connecting his real events to his work of fiction. Salinger continues to use the installation of reality in fiction following Holden's hospitalization. The reader discovers in the first chapter that Holden is hospitalized due to a recent nervous breakdown (Salinger). Interestingly enough, Salinger was also hospitalized shortly after his combat in World War II for his depression (Biography). Clearly, Salinger was making a major connection to himself through Holden by giving his character his