would go on to become one of the most iconic characters in literary history. But the intense public scrutiny brought on by the success of “Catcher in the Rye” pushed Salinger further into a ...

(Unlike Shakespeare, which I only pretended to understand). Specifically, the main character in "The Catcher In The Rye," Holden Caulfield, spoke like a high school student like me--using words ...

J.D. Salinger filed a lawsuit yesterday in New York District Court over an author’s planned sequel to “The Catcher in the Rye ... the original book and the character of Holden Caulfield.

I read “Catcher in the Rye” more than 40 years go ... I thought the main character was messed up, and kind of stupid. If I’d have known at the time that the author drank his own urine ...

In the 70 years since Caulfield first cynically railed against the world’s superficiality, the character has grown ... Madeleine Carlisle Buy Now: The Catcher in the Rye on Bookshop | Amazon ...

He announced soon afterwards that he was going to be more ‘sympathetic’ to his characters, including Holden Caulfield, the anti-hero of The Catcher in the Rye, on which he was already working ...

The narrator in J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” speaks of a post-modern teen angst familiar to anyone who’s been surrounded by phonies. Given a contemporary context, would Holden ...

I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.” This catcher in the rye character is often taken as a metaphor for Holden’s aversion to maturing — he’s the only “big ...

The young hero of J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye" is often described as one of the great unreliable narrators in American fiction -- a character whose self-image is at odds ...

Actor and producer Edward Norton shares his memories of reading The Catcher of Rye as an adolescent, and his analysis of the character Holden Caulfield and the way author J.D. Salinger uses ...

The first line of J.D. Salinger's novel 'The Catcher in the Rye' reflects the themes of isolation ... this innocence in himself and others. Character Insight: The first line provides insight ...