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Originally intended for adults, it is often read by adolescents for its themes of angst and alienation, and as a critique of superficiality in society. [4] [5] The novel also deals with themes of innocence, identity, belonging, loss, connection, sex, and depression. The main character, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion. [6]
Holden Caulfield is the narrator and main character of The Catcher in the Rye.The novel recounts Holden's week in New York City during Christmas break, circa 1948/1949, following his expulsion from Pencey Prep, a preparatory school in Pennsylvania based loosely on Salinger's alma mater Valley Forge Military Academy.
Green Day's "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?" from their album Kerplunk (1991) is named after and is about the novel's main character, Holden Caulfield. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong recalled being forced to read the novel in high school and despising it. He later reread it as an adult, because it was seen as "punk rock". [52]
In the 1940s, Salinger told several people that he was working on a novel featuring Holden Caulfield, the teenage protagonist of his short story "Slight Rebellion off Madison", [53] and Little, Brown and Company published The Catcher in the Rye on July 16, 1951. [54]
Lillian Simmons is an old friend of D.B. Caulfield, whom Holden runs into at a bar that the three of them used to frequent. Holden regards her as a phony, too. Arthur Childs. Holden recalls a conversation with Arthur Childs, whom he knew at Whooton. The two shared an interest in tennis, and converse about the sport.
Since the book's 1951 publication, Holden has become an icon for teenage rebellion and angst, and now stands among the most important characters of 20th-century American literature. The name Holden Caulfield, as shown below, was used in an unpublished short story written in 1942 and first appeared in print in 1945. Angel Clare
Holden Bowler (September 23, 1912 - October 31, 2001) was an American athlete, singer and businessman who served as the namesake for Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye and was the godfather of Judy Collins.
The first-person narrator in “Both Parties Concerned,” the young married father, Billy Vullmer, resembles the distinctive voice of Holden Caulfield in Salinger’s 1951 novel Catcher in the Rye. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Salinger adopts a first-person account so as to elaborate Billy’s struggle to discover and express his discontents. [ 9 ]