Catcher In The Rye By Jerome David Salinger

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  The novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by Jerome David Salinger written in 1951 is about a boy living through an adult’s life for three days. 17-year-old Holden Caulfield is in a mental home and tells his story about how he gets expelled from school after getting low marks. Additionally he gets thrown out because of always philosophizing about the others’ lives as being “phony” and “lousy”. He doesn’t inform his parents about that incident but escapes to New York for three days where he gets himself drunk, calls a prostitute and is having a fight with a pimp. In addition to that, he meets with his classmate Sally Hayes for going to a play in the theatre. He tells her his idea to flee to the West