Time-travel to midcentury Manhattan with J.D. Salinger's 'The Catcher in the Rye.' We deconstruct this classic.
J.D. Salinger’s beloved 1951 classic offers inspiration for weathering anxiety and a time-traveler’s guide to midcentury ManhattanMANY OF US find it hard to separate the pleasures of “The Catcher in the Rye” from memories of the peevish delight it gave us as teenagers.
From the first page, where narrator Holden Caulfield insists he won’t be sharing his “goddam autobiography or anything,” J.D. Salinger’s 1951 novel was and remains irresistibly irreverent. Then comes his decimating verbal attack on the prep school that has expelled him—“on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all,” says our surly, often hilarious hero. Holden, mentally fragile and keenly observant, escapes to spend a couple of days in his hometown,...
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