Volume 1 - Issue 4, November - December 2025

The study of this research paper portraits of,“Cultural Disillusionment and Loosing Innocence: A Comparative Study of American Identity Abroad and at Home in Daisy Miller and The Catcher in the Rye” by Henry James and J.D Salinger. The research explores the theme of navigating the transition from innocence to experience which is present in both text. Daisy Miller, initially contracts American and European societies, highlighting the situation between innocence and societal expectations while The Catcher in the Rye focuses on teenagers disillusionment with “phoniness” of the adult world and the struggle focused upon childhood innocence. The novella Daisy Miller showcase class distinct, misjudged by European culture and breakdown of innocence in a very short time , while The Catcher in the Rye illustrated, traumatic moments of a young boy , who want to stay in the catcher of the rye and all, also suffering from depression, misjudged by society, breakdown of innocence, cultural disillusionment and again cope up with terrible consequences .The Miller family misjudged when they are traveling by the people like Mrs. Costello and Mrs. Walker, and they were representing two distinct classes in American society. Henry James thus exposes the role of the ideas about class and social standing play in upper-class American society and they has shape their dealings with one another. On the contrary, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger tries to find out the Holden Caulfield’s complexities of an adulthood and the world around him. The loss of his innocence and the pain of growing up from childhood to adulthood. Holden does not meticulous analysis of the people. The author shows the relationship through the characters and theme. The study used a qualitative research method. This research is concerned with quality of information. This paper is discussed by rating text as a primary source of information. Paper, journal reports are used to as a secondary source of information. This paper is also processed in a set of comparative way and many library theories are used for instant alienation, identify crisis, social judgment, teenagers disillusionment with phoniness and cultural conflict to analyze the study broadly and critically.