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Title: Some people just miss the point...
Review: The Catcher in the Rye is much more than a disillusioned youth complaining about life in general. This, at its core, is a very sad story about a boy who lost his childlike innocence too early and recognizes that fact. Holden doesn't want the same thing to happen to all the other "little kids" in the world. I read this book for the first time when I was 14 and loved it. Every time I reread it I get more out of it. Holden's motives and perceptions become clearer to me the older I get. He is not a "spoiled preppie," as some have purported. He grew up in a rarified environment and that is partly to blame for his view of the world. He mentions several times that he wants to move away to the mountains and live as a deaf mute. This isn't intended to show him as cynical. This shows his reaction to the environment he was lived in all his life.
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