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A review of "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D Salinger

Date Submitted: 06/05/2000 11:35:52
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 3 pages (918 words)
Views: 41102

        The title of the novel The Catcher In The Rye, by JD Salinger, has a substantial connection to the story. This title greatly explains the main character, Holden Caulfield, and his feelings towards life and human nature. In society he has found enormous corruption, vulgarity, harm and havoc. He knows that the children of the world are ruined by the corruption of adults around them and, he states later in the novel, his new purpose …

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…the children and their purity of heart then he would be helping society enormously. He realizes though that he cannot solely do this, and redefines his purpose to something more approachable. He now understands that maybe 'falling' isn't that bad after all, and that one must take risks if one is to grow. When he makes this decision he rejects the role of catcher and in addition affirms his own acceptance of his evolving maturity.

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