Catcher In The Rye Response

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J.D. Salinger and published in 1951. The controversial novel was first written aimed at adult audience but gained popularity with adolescent readers because of its ' themes of adolescent rebellion. The main focus is not put on the events but on the main protagonist himself including his emotions, views and morals.

The novel is set somewhere around the 1950s and is narrated by the main protagonist Holden Caufield. Holden doesn 't specify the location while telling the story, but it 's clear he 's undergoing treatment in a mental hospital. He refuses to talk about his early life so he starts from the point where he was expelled from his highschool (between fall school term and

The next morning Holden goes out for breakfast at a little sandwich bar where he meets two nuns. They talk about Romeo and Juliet and after a pleasant conversation, Holden convinces them to take 10 dollars as nice contribution. After they leave, he regrets not giving them more than 10 dollars. He concludes money makes people depressed. After breakfast he goes for a walk. He starts thinking about Phoebie again and wants to see her. He went to the place he knew Phoebie often visited on Sundays – the park. He doesn 't find Phoebie there, but

Later that day, he goes on a sate with a girl named Sally Hayes, whom he dated before. The date ends badly when he insults her and she leaves angrily. The same night he meets with another person from his past, Carl Luce, who was a student advisor in one of his previous schools. That meeting didn 't end very well either, as Carl gets annoyed by Holden 's childish remarks and goes home quicky. As he leaves, Holden gets drunk and decides to walk to the duck pond in Central Park to see if the ducks are still around. He gets quite sad and decides to risk going home because he needs to see Phoebie and talk to her. He sneaks into the family 's apartment and looks for Phoebie. He finds her sleeping in D.B. 's rooms and wakes her up. She is overjoyed to see him and starts talking, bursting with energy. She then realizes he was home early and that he must be expelled, to which she gets very angry at him saying he doesn 't like anything. Holden explains how he wants to be "the catcher in the rye", inspred by a song lyric "If a body catch a body coming through the rye", and how he wants to run away. H eimagines a big field of rye on a cliff and children playing in it. He wants to stand on the edge of the cliff and catch the children when they get too close to falling off. Before he gets the chance to further explain, they hear keys unlocking the apartment doors, and Holden quickly escapes. Before he leaves Phoebie gives him some of her money. He calls his former teacher mr.