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This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, one of the most popular young adult novels of all time. It is written from the perspective of Holden Caulfield, a rebellious teenager who suffers from depression and finds social conventions oppressive. After being expelled, Holden decides to run away, and spends three days roaming the streets of New York in search of meaning, a better understanding of himself, and somewhere he belongs. The Catcher in the Rye was first published in 1951 and remains a firm favourite with teenage readers around the world. It is the best-known work by J. D. Salinger, a reclusive American writer who died in 2010.

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Table of Contents

Citations to The Catcher in the Rye vii

Are You a Phony? A Self-Test ix

All That David Copperfield Kind of Crap xi

Lawyers and Other Phonies 1

1 Mixed Drinks and Mixed Motives Nic Bommarito 3

2 The Most Terrific Liar You Ever Saw in Your Life Don Fallis 11

3 Love and Squalor at the Antolinis' Stijn De Cauwer 23

4 You Can't Teach Somebody How to Really Dance Rick Mayock 37

Holden's Rules for Crumby Stuff 53

5 Holden in Love Elizabeth Olson Charles Taliaferro 55

6 Holden and Some Very Crumby Stuff Keith Dromm 63

7 The Moral Call and the Moral Catch Guy Pinku 77

8 Holden Onto What's Right Jamie Carlin Watson 87

Where Do the Ducks Go? 99

9 The Elderly Teenager Marcus Schulzke 101

10 The Sickness unto Barfing Dale Jacquette 113

11 Being and Phoniness Russell Manning 127

12 Holden and Other Lunatics Jan Whitt 139

Salinger's Trash and All 151

13 Censorship in the Rye Donna Marie Smith 153

14 The Case Against Salinger's Trash Claudia Franziska Brühwiler 165

15 Is Holden Mentally Ill? Michael Cundall 175

16 Calling Salinger Up Keith Dromm Heather Salter 189

Phonies, Bastards, Morons, and Madmen 203

Goddam Hot-Shots 205

Index 209

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