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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.
The main character, Holden Caulfield, has become an icon for teenage rebellion. [6] Caulfield, nearly of age, gives his opinion on a wide variety of topics as he narrates his recent life events. The Catcher in the Rye has been translated widely. [7] About one million copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than 65 million books. [8]
Screeching Weasel's "I Wrote Holden Caulfield" from their album How to Make Enemies and Irritate People is named after the novel's main character, Holden Caulfield and written in response to Green Day's "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?". Pencey Prep was a band from New Jersey formed by Frank Iero. The name of the band is a reference to the school ...
Holden Caulfield is a college student who has arrived home during the Christmas break. He is disaffected and disgusted with campus life and with conventional life in general. He loathes the prospect of performing as a dutiful son to his father and working for the family business. Young Holden first meets up with Sally to go ice skating.
Box office. $3.8 million (US rentals) [1] Dear Ruth is a 1947 American romantic comedy film starring Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, Billy De Wolfe and Edward Arnold. It was based on the 1944 Broadway play of the same name by Norman Krasna. The film's plot concerns a teenage girl who uses her older sister's identity to communicate ...
"Salinger’s refusal to collect these tales in hardcover derives from his conviction that they were not worth reprinting. This decision has largely preempted a developmental approach to his work, and it is generally unrecognized that the contours of Holden Caulfield’s character were drawn as early as 1941.
In the 2002 film The Good Girl, the character of Holden (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) adopts the name because of his admiration of The Catcher in the Rye. The anime TV series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex heavily references J. D. Salinger works including Catcher in the Rye , The Laughing Man and A Perfect Day for Banana Fish .
The New Yorker. Publication date. June 19, 1965. "Hapworth 16, 1924" is an uncollected work of short fiction by J. D. Salinger that appeared in the June 19, 1965, issue of The New Yorker. [1] The story is the last original work Salinger published during his lifetime, and filled almost the entire magazine.