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Title: Vastly Overrated
Review: The character Salinger creates in "Catcher," the jaded, world-weary Holden Caulfield, is simplistic and reductionist. There isn't much we can relate to from Holden, and his delineation is weak and sparse: is he the hero, or the anti-hero? I suppose the confusion is purposeful, but that's all I feel when I read this book...and this is considered one of the greatest books written by an American?!? All I can say to that is thank God there are other countries and other types of authors out there, or I would never have been able to pursue Literature in school. Try something with a little more subtlety to it, like Isherwood or Byatt; of course those are English authors, and perhaps that's why they're better writers.
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