For example, Holden is expelled from several schools throughout his life due to his grades before being sent to Pencey Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania and raised in New York. According to "Biography," "After failing out of the McBurney School near his home on New York's Upper West Side, he was sent by his parents to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania." Obviously, Salinger was trying to make his connections to Holden clear to his audience by connecting his real-life events to his fictional work. Salinger continues his use of installing reality into fiction through Holden's hospitalization. The reader discovers in the first chapter that Holden is hospitalized due to a recent nervous breakdown (Salinger). Interestingly, Salinger was also hospitalized shortly after his combat in World War II due to his nervous breakdown (biography). Clearly, Salinger was creating an important connection with himself through Holden by giving his character his own