What is life? Why are we living? How do we need to live in this world? These are some questions many people ask themselves, which reflects to the ideal of modernism. The intentional change from tradition and the use of new forms of expression that show many styles in the arts and literature of the twentieth century. The idea of modernism is reflected in both novels, The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger and The Death of Ivan Ilych, by L. Tolstoy. Both novels are celebrated as modern ideal works for their themes. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Both main characters Holden Caulfield and Ivan Ilyach question rules of the society and alienate them selves from it. In The Death of Ivan Ilyach, Ivan opens his eyes when he realizes he is
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