struggle with pain

Struggle with pain in growing-up Introduction J.D. Salinger is one of the most significant post-World War II American novelists, when he published his ¡° The Catcher in the Rye¡± in 1951, he gained immediately a great reputation, especially among younger intellectuals. Shortly after the publishing, the book becomes assigned reading for a majority of high school and college English course, which proves his success in another way. Holden Caufield, the protagonist in the Catcher in the …

…his childhood. Furthermore, he wants to be a protester of all the good values he and other children preserve. Therefore, he takes some sort of rebellious actions, such as evading school, fighting with Stradlater etc. But all these efforts fall into a failure. He begins to learn how to face the phony world of the adults. He realizes he lives in a real society, not in his fantasy. He cannot change it but accept it.