Catcher in the Rye

These darn teenagers, they have no respect for society. Everyone has heard a comment that makes a point similar to this. The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, takes this statement from another point of view -- the cynical teenager’s. The narrator, Holden Caulfield, is a sixteen-year-old boy who found everything about the adult world “phony.” The novel began with him looking back at a certain three days from the December …

…she pitched a fit. It was through watching her ride the carousel, and her pleading with him to stay that he agreed to just that. This was the only time he seemed to have been truly happy. The final words he shared was “Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.” Those might have been the only other words to keep Holden in society, the ones he had already spoken.