A comparative essay between THE CATCHER IN THE RYE and GREAT EXPECTATIONS

When analyzing and comparing The Catcher in the Rye and Great Expectations, by J.D. Salinger and Charles Dickens respectively, one usually stops and ponders, what can these two novels possibly have in common? Well I can tell you, quite a lot. To begin with, both are fictional autobiographies, narrated personally by the protagonists, that is Holden and Pip. However, regardless of the fact that they are both narrated in the first person, one, Great Expectations is a full life story, and you can tell by the very beginning, Pip starts by giving us a full background description of his self and…