W. P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Shoeless Joe contains many allusions to the work of J. D. Salinger. The most obvious is that Shoeless Joe's main character, Ray Kinsella, kidnaps Salinger, who acts as an intermediary between Kinsella and the deceased 1919 Chicago White Sox baseball team.
Additionally, W. P. Kinsella explained that Ray Kinsella was not named for him but for characters in Salinger’s stories. Salinger twice used the name Kinsella in his work. Ray Kinsella appears in the short story "A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All," and Richard Kinsella is Holden Caulfield's friend in Salinger's 1951 masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye, which W. P. Kinsella called "the quintessential book about growing up male in America."
Thematically, Shoeless Joe also alludes to The Catcher in the Rye. Both are about efforts to return to a time of innocence. Ray Kinsella builds the baseball field as a tribute to the past and lost innocence. Holden Caulfield wants to be a "catcher in the rye" who helps children hang onto their innocence.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
What are some allusions in the novel Shoeless Joe?
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