Catcher In The Rye


Catcher In The Rye
The controversy surrounding The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger by Starbuck21 Holden Caufield, the smoking, cursing, prostitute-soliciting hero of "Catcher in the Rye," does not exactly inspire parental confidence. From the 60s all the way to the 80s J. D. Salinger's novel was the most censored title in both US schools and li... More> Cultural references to The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger by Michael Frissore J.D. Salinger's novel "The Catcher in the Rye" has been referenced all over our culture since it was first published in 1951. Perhaps the greatest example of this is Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, who was obsessed with the novel and eve... More>
	The significance of the carousel in The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger by Cynthia Ruff The Setting Main character and narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is the teen-aged Holden Caulfield. Holden describes his life while living in a boarding school in New York during the middle part of the twentieth century. Holden is continually distr... More> Plot summary: The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger by John Devera Holden Caulfield, the main character of J.D. Salinger's seminal novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is above all, an extremely unreliable narrator. He tells his story, and we discover later, to a psychiatrist while he is undergoing psychoanalysis at a ho... More>
Book reviews: The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger by Starbuck21 A focal point of both controversy and popular acclaim, "The Catcher in the Rye" has been a favorite in high school English curriculums all over the country since it was first published in 1951. Protagonist Holden Caulfield has just failed out of Pen... More> Character analyses: The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger by Joan Liu "If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace, you know?" The musings of Jim Stark, a main character in the film Rebel without a Cause closely ... More>
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