The novel “Catcher in the Rye” was written by the well-known American author Jerome David Salinger. The book was released in 1951 and, though controversial, appealed to a great audience and was a general critical success. “Catcher in the Rye” is narrated by a young man named Holden Caulfield, who is undergoing treatment at a mental hospital. The novel is about the young character’s growth into maturity in life. Instead of confessing that adulthood scares and puzzles him, Holden develops a fantasy
Gaby Yonarta Mrs. Johns English 3-4 (H), Period 5 17 August 2015 Part I: Interpretive Analysis The Catcher in the Rye 1. Although Holden so passionately despise “phonies”, he himself can be categorized as a “phony”. By definition, a phony individual is someone who is fraudulent and hypocritical and while there are a lot of “phonies” in the world, what Holden does not realize is that he himself is an even bigger “phony” than the people he accuse of being “phonies”. In his mind, he imagines a utopia