This is a carefully crafted text. Salinger adopts the persona, language and speech patterns of a west coast American teenager. Some aspects of the text create the impression that the speech is spontaneous and disorganized, Holden Caulfield repeats himself, he gets side tracked about his brother an...

JD salingers book, "Catcher in the rye" captures a few days in the life of Holden Caulfield. Holden's journey of self descovery begins when he is kicked out of Pencey College. Holden's feelings, the people he encounters and often his concerns are revealed to the reader thr...

Mr. Negative In the coming of age novel, The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger, Holden (the main character) is sexually confused, afraid of growing up, and has a pessimistic outlook towards life, making him an emotional young man. Holden's negative attitude towards everything effects ...