The Ultimate Setting
Bright lights, a colourful people walking the street and an unforgettable ambience. In a large portion of literary history, we find New York City, the Holy Grail of all things publishing and in retrospect, the ultimate setting to a large portion of modern and classical literature. In New York City, we find the characters of Holden Caulfield, Jay Gatsby, Esther Greenwood and Princess Mia. Author's from prior to the 1900s have been fascinated with the city and authors today are follow this trend even more so. It is home to many publishing houses, some of the biggest, and the home of the notorious New York Times Bestseller List. New York City has an immaculate ability to draw in captors and once left, it is a place where a part of your soul remains. But why? In Catcher in the Rye we find Salinger diving into the depths of Central Park, using it as a symbol for self-growth and the beauty of youth for young Holden Caulfield. Central Park is just this, it is beautiful. It has an en