Title: The Catcher in the Rye Pdf
Author: J.D. Salinger
Published Date: 1991-05-01
Page: 240
Novel by J.D. Salinger, published in 1951. The influential and widely acclaimed story details the two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, he searches for truth and rails against the "phoniness" of the adult world. He ends up exhausted and emotionally ill, in a psychiatrist's office. After he recovers from his breakdown, Holden relates his experiences to the reader. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days.
The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it.
There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices--but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.
Catcher of the Eye Catcher in the Rye When books are placed on a banned list in many states it is usually for a lot factors adding up, such as inappropriate language or actions, themes highlighting problems and issues that teenagers could face or even exposure to the harsh realities of life. To many that spells trouble but to me it sounds like the perfect recipe for a captivating book. Most think it is a good idea to sugarcoat books but I like the honesty and themes that are portrayed in the stories like Catcher in the Rye. It doesn’t shy away from realistic scenarios like under aged drinking, troubled school dropouts, or insane asylums. The story’s New York in the 1950’s setting paints the scene for Holden Caulfield and his troubles. His first person flashback narrating gives us an in depth look at his personality and reasoning for things but even with the narration type we are still left with questions and curiosity about Holden because of things he does not reveal to us or things he doesn’t even understand himself. Even with this book’s edgy atmosphere many of the themes displayed throughout the story are types of innocence that Holden shows whenever faced with a strange or different situation he isn’t familiar with. At one point Holden is in his hotel room in New York and pays a prostitute, she doesn’t appear to be any older than him and sge refuses things like a cigarette and informs Holden she doesn’t smoke “It was a funny thing to say. It sounded like a real kid. You'd think a prostitute and all would say ‘Like hell you are’ or ‘Cut the crap’ instead of ‘Like fun you are.’” Another theme that arises is the theme of love or lust when Holden is constantly thinking about an ex-girlfriend of his and he is constantly faced with situations that force him between the two. All together I thought the book was a fantastic story that let the character fully develop and showed us his angel and devil on the shoulder type of personality.Boring read I just don't get it. This was one of the most boring reads ever. I had to force myself to finish the book, short as it is. When I was 16 or 17, I knew who I was and what I wanted from life. I can find no basis for identifying with any of Holden's psychotic mental rantings. If you find yourself groundless and life to be a bewildering chaos, then maybe you can find some connection with this character, but I, for one, find Holden to be a narcissistic whiner, and I find this "classic" to be a complete disappointment. Oh, and for the reviewers who carry on about the symbolism: ok, it's there, but I think the "deep" symbolism that you gush over is trivial. But then, I'm a little jaded because one of my best friends wrote a novel that made the NYT Best Seller list; he says he did not purposely put ANY symbolism whatsoever into his story, but found that he later had to invent some in order to massage the egos of reviewers and readers who just KNEW that it was rife with multiple layers of symbolism. Wait a minute...maybe Sallinger did have a valid point, after all, with his treatment of society's phoniness. The bottom line for me: this book receives a ton of positive press, and I would love to have liked it, but the honest truth is I hated it.
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