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1. www.litcharts.com › lit › the-catcher-in-the-ryeThe Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger Plot Summary - LitCharts

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   The Catcher in the Rye Summary. Writing from a rest home where he’s recuperating from an unidentified ailment, Holden Caulfield says he’ll tell the story of what happened to him just before the previous Christmas. Holden’s story begins at his school, Pencey Prep, on the day of an annual football game that all of the students normally ...

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   Main Theme of Catcher in The Rye. The novel takes place most in New York City as the main character, Holden Caulfield, navigates growing up and leaving behind his childhood innocence. The story takes place in post-WWII American as the nation experienced great prosperity. Holden interprets the resulting lifestyles as creating “phonies” and ...

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   The Catcher in the Rye saw great literary success because the novel was able to appeal to readers on an emotional level that was unprecedented. With counterculture movements growing in the 1950s and 1960s, the themes of alienation and rebellion against a cold and uncaring society took root in many young people’s hearts and minds.

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   THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger TO MY MOTHER 1 If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, an what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I

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   Aug 13, 2019 · The Catcher in the Rye was his first and only novel, published in 1951. It remains one of the most translated, taught and reprinted texts, and has sold over 65 million copies worldwide. He went on to write three further, critically acclaimed, best-selling works of fiction: Franny an d Zooey, For Esmé - With Love And Squalor and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour - An Introduction .

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   The Painfulness of Growing Up. According to most analyses, The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman, a novel about a young character’s growth into maturity. While it is appropriate to discuss the novel in such terms, Holden Caulfield is an unusual protagonist for a bildungsroman because his central goal is to resist the process of maturity ...

7. www.thoughtco.com › the-catcher-in-the-rye'The Catcher in the Rye' Overview - ThoughtCo

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   Jan 28, 2020 · Updated on January 28, 2020. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, is one of the most well-known coming-of-age novels in American literature. Through the first-person narrative of teenager Holden Caulfield, the novel explores modern alienation and the loss of innocence. Fast Facts: The Catcher in the Rye. Author: J.D. Salinger.