![]() His parents come home, he hides in her closet and then seeks refuge at the Who is the only person alive in the world he genuinely loves and cares about. Sneaks into his parents’ luxurious apartment and talks to his kid sister Phoebe, ![]() ![]() Finally, he’s broke and has no place else to go, so he Money in a long weekend in New York City, tries to pick up girls, and fumesĪbout phonies while he behaves in an utterly phony fashion to practicallyĮveryone he meets. Too cowardly to face his parents, he blows his Just wished the book were a little better.Ĭaulfield is rich, disaffected white boy with PTSD who has just flunked out of The book has been massively influential since it was published in 1951. It again after so many years, and I can certainly see more than a little HoldenĬaulfield in Jack, the protagonist of Fight I’d probably see the book’s influence on The Dead Poets’ Society, were I to watch Partly in its private prep school and Manhattan settings but also in its themes My husband was watching just this weekend) has the fragrance of The Catcher in the Rye all over it, Read it, I can see its influence on loads of books and movies. To read in any of my American literature courses. Its literary status, it’s a classic 20th century novel that I somehow never had Alternately banned in some schoolsīecause of its profanity and assigned in English classes at others because of That was on my to-read list for a very long time.
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