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Title: The Catcher in the Rye
Review: J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye portrays Holden Caulfield as a sixteen-year old, white, upper class, New Yorker in the 1950s. The book shows Holden's unwillingness to grow up and his struggle with loneliness. Salinger does a good job of describing how Holden feels about people and things. For example, when he is talking about a young man he met that went to a good college, he says "The jerk had one of those very phony, Ivy League voices, one of those very tired, snobby voices. He sounded just like a girl." This helps you understand that Holden doesn't like phony people. He uses language that convinces readers that Holden is a young man from New York in the mid-twentieth century. This book is easy for teenagers to relate to because they can associate with his stupid actions and propensity for deception, along with his adolescent silliness and his genuine care for innocence. I think the book is provocative and well written.
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