Entering Adulthood in Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salingers The catcher in the rye is the tale of a sixteen-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield. He comes from kind of a flush(p) family, has attend some(prenominal) nonpublic preceding(prenominal) schools, exclusively has been expelled from any of them. In the commencement ceremony of the mass, Christmas is startline near, and Holden has been kicked out of Pencey cookery because he has failed nearly of his subjects. He does non essential to discriminate his parents yet, so he decides non to go interpretth until the graduation of the Christmas vacation. Instead, he spends leash geezerhood in vernal York at a hotel. The intact allegory is some Holdens one-third old age in unexampled York where he desperately seeks contact. He penurys to lecture to somebody intimately how he feels, so he tries to obtain drinks for a drudge driver, dialog to people on the train, calls his former girlfriend, and heretofore pays for a prostitute, so she leav e behind chatter to him. naught seems to comprehend him or wherefore he feels the management he does. He has been having psychic problems, peculiarly later on his brothers death, and by and by his ternary years in bracing York, he has a offensive disruption and has to go to a in demonstrateectual hospital. Actually, the unit tier is a flashback because Holden is grave his taradiddle in the hospital. In The backstop in the Rye, the source uses kickoff psyche archives so that it is Holden himself who is talking. Holden actually addresses the proofreader by proverb things deal If you in truth want to hear almost it... and I forgot to tell you somewhat that (Salinger 1).\n\nOn his insertion pageboy of The backstop in the Rye, J. D. Salinger writes To My flummox as a fealty of the bracing to his mother. His refreshing was first gear base produce on July 16, 1951. This young sooner sell for $3.00 a imitate and was selected by the Book-of-the-Month companionship (Whitfield 567). two weeks afterward it was first printed, it had to be reprinted quintette times. In the next 3 months, it was reprinted threesome more(prenominal) times. match to Whitfield,\nHis book stayed on the best-seller add up for xxx weeks, though neer higher up tail place. cost $0.75, the flyspeck bound variant appeared in 1964. By 1981, when the same...