The Catcher In The Rye / J.D. Salinger - book report

Preface -

This book has been steeped in controversy since it was banned in the States after its first

publication. John Lennons assassin, Mark Chapman, asked the former beatle to sign a copy of

the book earlier in the morning of the mean solar day that he murdered Lennon. Police found the book in

his self-denial upon apprehending the psychologically disturbed Chapman. However, the book

itself contains nothing that could be attributed with leading Chapman to deport as he did - it could

have been any book that he was yarn the day he decided to kill John Lennon - and as a

result of the fact that it was The Catcher In The Rye, a book describing flighty breakdown,

media speculated widely about the possible connection. This gave the book even more

notoriety. So what is The Catcher In The Rye actually about ?

Superficially the story of a young mans expulsion from yet another school, The Catcher In

The Rye is in fact a perceptive study of one individuals rationality of his human condition.

Holden Caulfield, a teenager growing up in 1950s New York, has been expelled school for

poor achievement once again. In an attempt to deal with this he leaves school a a few(prenominal) days prior

to the end of term, and goes to New York to take a vacation before go to his parents

inevitable wrath.

Told as a monologue, the book describes Holdens thoughts and activities over these few

days, during which he describes a developing nervous breakdown, symptomised by his bouts of

unexplained depression, impulsive spending and broadly speaking odd, erratic behaviour, prior to his

eventual nervous collapse.

However, during his psychological battle, life continues on around Holden as it always had,

with the majority of people ignoring the madman stuff that is casualty to him - until...

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