The novel The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D Salinger is one of the most discussed novels in American literature. The Catcher in the Rye is J.D Salinger 's landmark novel, it set a new course for literature in post-WWII America and vaulted him to the heights of literary fame. The book mostly focuses on the period of time when a young teenage boy named Holden Caulfield gets expelled from his high school and how he sees, feels things and people around him. J.D Salinger shows Holden as a 16-year-old boy lose to adult hood and having trouble with accepting society and struggling with many issues in the daily life. Holden is an individual in earlier American society, who is non-conformable and does not choose to cooperate with society, however still very human because he is low self-esteem when he calls himself words like moron, madman or weak, but Holden is sincere and kind when he desires to be a protector of innocent for young children. According to Christopher Parker, a critic of The Catcher in the Rye, he said: “I 'm not trying to say …show more content…
During the time in the city before going back home, Holden Caulfield experiences and discovers more about himself. He presents an individual in the early society who are struggling with cooperate with the whole community, and even people around. He is not a rebel, though he is usually called that. He is merely suffering from the way things are, always and everywhere, in a world of insufficient truth. He is a low self-esteem and sometimes absurd adolescent, but he is also a doomed human being of special sensitivity. The neglect Holden felt as a child produced his catcher in the rye fantasy, where he wants to protect the foundation of childhood and innocence. This fantasy is the reason that Holden stops himself from becoming involved with people and that makes him very human and sincere as