Chain smoking with gusto and delight, drinking in bars, dives like a man, where people aren't too concerned about a customer's age just the color of his dough, going to a Broadway play with a very accommodating girlfriend, attending the loathsome movies and seeing all those phonies, the actors, fighting with unsmiling cab drivers , the kid is having a good time, living like a grown-up, as long as the cash lasts. The New Yorker , February 8, , p. At the risk of sounding like an adult contemporary power ballad written by Jim Steinman, with synthesized violins in the background, I began to feel as if my adolescence had finally come to an end. He realizes what really makes him happy.

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Mar 18, Stephen rated it it was amazing Shelves: A strong case could be made that he truly died in spirit when he started stalking Elaine Joyce on the set of s sitcom Mr. Internet URLs are the best. They can drive you crazy.

The novel details two days in the life of year-old Holden Caulfield after he has been expelled from prep school. I suppose the only reason I begrudge him his breakdown is that so many in our culture -- many more, unfortunately, than just the legitimate adolescents among us -- seem fixated on Holden catcehr a symbol of honesty and socially-liberating rebellion.

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Holden has no real friends in school, or liking anyone there, and the sentiment is very mutual, everything is "phony", his favorite word, which he speaks and thinks constantly. In those days you were expected to as I was told "Do as I say, not as I do.

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You can find it in: Retrieved August 13, He sneaks in, still not prepared to face his parents, and finds his year-old sister, Phoebe.

He sneaks into his parents' apartment while they are out, and wakes up Phoebe — the only person with whom he seems to be able to communicate his true feelings. At the same time, the point of those meetings is to help people live- not just free from drugs, but maybe free to live in the mundane? I personally thoroughly enjoyed every part of this book. I thought maybe I could bag on the less than spectacular prose used by Salinger making myself feel really smart in the process.

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Originally solicited by Harcourt, Brace and Company, the manuscript was rejected after catche head of the trade division asked whether Holden was supposed to be crazy. As you enter adulthood you could start to see things and people as phony or fake. The next morning, Holden, becoming increasingly depressed and in need of personal connection, calls Sally Hayes, a familiar date.

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Catchrr "annoying", "pseudo rebellious" and "just don't care" exterior were so obviously manufactured and so patently hiding a seriously sad and lost boy that I was transfixed on finding the real Holden Caulfield.

The Caulfield family was one Salinger had already explored in a number of stories that had been published by different magazines. You don't have to be a murderer to like it, though.

That is easily one of the saddest, most p Well, this was a pain to get through. Because - oh the horror! Bush called it a "marvelous book," listing it among the books that have inspired him. The Catcher in the Rye takes the loss of innocence as its primary concern.

That digression business got on my nerves. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. Time passed, and my self-loathing mellowed.

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Although Holden claims that she is "the queen of all phonies", they agree to meet that afternoon to attend a play at the Biltmore Theater. Ina small publisher announced a deal with Salinger to publish "Hapworth 16, " in book form, but inn the ensuing publicity, the release was indefinitely delayed.

Mar 25, Kathy rated it it was ok. If you don't go along, if you don't play the game, then the vast machine that is society will knock you down and even lock you away.

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