the catcher in the rye review

At the same time, the point of those meetings is to help people live- not just free from drugs, but maybe free to live in the mundane? So it's like this. A lanky, crew-cut 16, well-born Holden Caulfield is sure all the world is out of step but him. In a narrative told from Caulfield’s perspective, the reader learns much about this boy as he wanders aimlessly around campus and eventually makes his way back to New York City. He can't see beyond the spectacle of his own disillusionment (and neither can J. D. Salinger); for all his painful self-consciousness, Holden Caulfield is not really self-aware. Checking into the Edmont Hotel in the "Big Apple", a rather shabby, rundown place, (I wouldn't recommend staying there) and then the elevator operator the sleazy Maurice , gets him a prostitute, Sunny, she's Holden's age and he kind of feels sorry for her. Holden Caulfield has just been told that he’s flunked out of another preparatory school and must make the journey home to relay this to his parents. Hi wants to be "Catcher in the rye" - the man who saves children from falling, falling into the adulthood. Now that I’m a crummy old guy I figured that I wouldn’t like it anymore. In fact, when he was the subject of a lengthy cover story for TIME in 1961, shortly after the publication of Franny and Zooey, he had already begun to recede into seclusion. spoiled, white, rich kids who feel misunderstood, I know there are people who thought this book changed their lives and helped them find their unique way in the world, but coming from a non-white, non-middleclass background, as a kid, I really resented having to read about this spoiled, screwed up, white, rich kid who kept getting chance after chance and just kept blowing it because he was so self-absorbed and self-pitying. “Some of my best friends are children,” says Jerome David Salinger, 32. everyone but phonies and athletic bastards, I was worried as hell about reading this book again. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our. Commentdocument.getElementById("comment").setAttribute( "id", "a9972e0fbd9aea5c5c33a1d1aea4812b" );document.getElementById("a8345c5eda").setAttribute( "id", "comment" ); Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The Catcher in the Rye is told from Holden’s perspective. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. Book Analysis © 2020. I LOVE IT when I go into a book with low expectations and it ends up knocking me on my ass. By signing up you are agreeing to our, LIST: The 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time, You Can Now Get a COVID-19 Vaccine in China, Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know now on politics, health and more, © 2020 TIME USA, LLC. I guess it still does. At sixteen, I wanted to marry Holden Caulfield. Or maybe a couple of bags of heroin. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. At sixteen, I found Holden Caulfield's crisis profoundly moving; I admired his searing indictment of society, his acute understanding of human nature, his extraordinary sensitivity (I mean, come on, he had a nervous breakdown for God's sake, he had to be sensitive). “He can understand an adolescent mind without displaying one.”. It is due to her influence that he doesn’t attempt to runaway in the concluding scenes of The Catcher in the Rye. He can't see that he himself is a phony. Taking the train to New York City, his hometown, but Holden doesn't go back to his uncaring family, his father, a well- to- do lawyer, too busy for Holden, nervous mother, she wants quiet, please, older brother D.B. His protagonist says little, does little, and thinks little, and yet Salinger doesn't string Holden up as a satire of deluded self-obsessives, he is rather the epic archetype of the boring, yet self-important depressive. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. I read the end of The Catcher in the Rye the other day and found myself wanting to take Holden Caulfield by the collar and shake him really, really hard and shout at him to grow up. Salinger had died maybe about a half hour ago (as I begin this 'review'). That’s the one thing about crummy old guys, they always hate books that kids like. It’s like they are trying to give you the time in the back of a cab when you don’t feel like getting the time at all. The novel opens with Holden learning he’s been expelled from yet another school, this doesn’t disappoint him as much as it reminds him of his irritation at the whole requirement. I personally thoroughly enjoyed every part of this book. Through this scene I found myself introduced to the passion Holden feels only in very specific aspects of his life. Holden is the teenage mind in all its confusion, rebellion and irrationality, and in all its undefined hope for individual heroism. It just made me angry.

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