The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the RyeAnyone who has read J. D. Salinger's New Yorker stories particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he

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everything in Lily’s life seems too good to be true

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and getting their first periods

and his parents don’t let just anyone into their fold

At sixteen

the dense forest is the writer’s favorite place for long walks and it’s on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads

like a poem

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Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out

of profound connection and gut-wrenching alienation

darkly comic