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
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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