The Catcher in the Rye
Rating: A-
Like
movies, there are a number of books that I feel like I should have read by this
point. For some reason, I wasn’t ever assigned to read them in school and never
decided to pick them up. I just finished Catcher in the Rye. I enjoyed the
pacing of the book, as the tempo seemed to speed up as the main character’s
desperation increased. His drinking and professed hatred for people also
increased as the book progressed. Holden is a young man with a lot of serious
issues to work out. We know he’s had a hard time dealing with the death of his
brother, and then we find out he has had several very uncomfortable run-ins
with so-called perverts. He is a very confused young man. Ultimately, Holden was mourning the loss of his youth or at least his youthful vision of life. He gets furious at the thought of children seeing swear words scrolled across a wall; he doesn't want the loss of anymore innocent minds. That is why he likes Phoebe so much and why she is the reason he decided to snap out of it. I was hoping that in
the resolution his parents would have found out about his troubles and gotten
him some help. While I do think he did find some piece of mind on his own that
day with Phoebe, more was needed to make sure Holden gets on the
right path in life and doesn’t have another near mental breakdown.
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