The Catcher in the Rye Discussion Topics: Holden Caulfield: -his hates: -People he sees as phony: -People that

drive him crazy: -People he feels sorry for: -is frequently bored, such as when: -notices minutiae about other people, such as: -he lies about: -his repeated sympathy toward young children, such as: Holdens family: His father- a corporation lawyer and wealthy; likes to invest in Broadway plays (that seem to flop) His mother- Holden seems to have great sympathy towards her; recognizes she has not been well since Allie died; understands that telling her that he got kicked out of another school will upset her D.B.- his brother and a successful author (similar to J.D.?); fought in WWII Phoebe- his 10 year old sister that he adores. Is Roller-skate skinny. Allie- impact on Holden how?

Minor Characters: Jane Gallagher- friend of Holden he constantly thinks about (especially after Stradlater has a date with her). She has a difficult family life. Holden once comforted her over issue with stepfather. He likes to hold hands with her. Although Holden repeatedly talks about her throughout the book, he never actually sees her. Mrs. Spencer- makes hot chocolate Mr. Spencer- cares about him and gives him advice Ward Stradlater- his roommate; hes a secret slob and very handsome; always asking Holden to do him a favor Mr. Ossenburger- donates money to school and wing is donated to him; gives speech about Jesus and someone passes gas during his speech Edgar Marsalla- passes gas during Ossenburgers speech Mr. Thurmer- headmaster of Pencey Mr. Haas- Holden sees as phony; would only talk to parents he likes; headmaster of Elkton Hills Robert Ackley- guy who rooms next to Holden, mossy teeth, pimples Sally Hayes- Holdens former girlfriend Mal Brossard- Holdens friend with whom he goes to Agerton Mrs. Morrow- Holden rides on a train with her Ernest Morrow- Mrs. Morrows son who Holden cant stand Rudolf Schmidt- the name of the janitor at Pencey; Holden says that is his name when talking to Mrs. Morrow Faith Cavendish-girl he calls to ask for a cocktail Bernice, Laverne, and Marty-girls in the Lavender room Horwitz- one of the cab drivers in NYC that argues with Holden about the ducks Ernie- plays piano at his nightclub Lillian Simmons- old girlfriend of D.B. Holden talks to at Ernies Maurice- man in elevator who asks if he is interested in having a girl come to his room Sunny-the prostitute Holden encounters Bobby Fallon- Holden goes for a bike ride with him when he lived in Maine as a child. Holden tells Allie he cant go with them, and Holden gets depressed when he thinks of this memory. Arthur Childs- a Quaker who once attended school with Holden. He argued with Holden over Holdens religious views. Dick Slagle- has cheap suitcases. Pretends Holdens nice ones and likes to say bourgeois 2 nuns- Holden has lunch next to them and he likes them; feels sorry that they cant go out for a swanky lunch Louis Shaney- first boy Holden meets at Whooton; Holden thinks Louis was trying to figure out if Holden was Catholic 6 year old kid- Holden notices kids parents are not paying attention to him as he sings If a body catch a body coming through the rye. Lunts- famous actors of the time period; Holden and Sally see a play with them as the leads. Miss Aigletiner- Holdens childhood teacher who used to take him to the museum. Harris Macklin- Holden says he was boring; Holden roomed with him at Elkton Hills and said he was a terrific whistler Carl Luce- friend who was three years older than him; Holden met him for drinks and annoys him by asking personal questions

Tina and Janine-performers at the Wicker Boy who sing in French and bother Holden for being phony Hazel Weatherfield- the main character in Phoebes stories Mr. Antolini-Holdens former English teacher; he puts coat over James Castle and carries him after his death Mrs. Antolini- Mr. Antolinis wife James Castle- boy who jumps out the window at Elkton Hills and dies to escape 6 boys who wanted to mess with him Richard Kinsella- students yell Digression! at him when giving a speech and this upsets Holden Mr. Vinson- oral expressions teacher who would tell students to unify and simply as they spoke Wilhelm Stekel- the psychoanalyst Antolini quotes who said, The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. Antolini puts this on a piece of paper for Holden, which Holden says he still has. Style of the novel: -Use of conversational style-use of I, you -Use of humor-Holdens sarcasm -Use of profanity-is it unnecessary? -is it offensive? -a novel written from the perspective of a teenager (there was no young adult fiction in the 1940sso if you like Stephanie Myers you might have Salinger to thank)Holden is anti-adult, questioning and figuring himself outlike many teenagers Symbols: -Holden worries about the ducks-Holdens red hat-Little Shirley Beans- record Holden wants to buy for Phoebe; song about a little girl who wont leave her house because her front teeth are missing Significance of title: The title of the book comes from a famous Robert Burns poem called Comin Through the Rye. It is as followed in the original and its translation:

Burns Original Comin Thro' The Rye. Chorus. O Jenny's a' weet, poor body, Jenny's seldom dry: She draigl't a' her petticoatie, Comin thro' the rye! 1. Comin thro' the rye, poor body, Comin thro' the rye, She draigl't a' her petticoatie, Comin thro' the rye! 2. Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body, Need a body cry? 3. Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the glen, Gin a body kiss a body, Need the warld ken? 4. Gin a body meet a body Comin thro' the grain, Gin a body kiss a body, The thing's a body's ain.

Standard English Translation Coming Through The Rye. Chorus. O Jenny is all wet, poor body, Jenny is seldom dry: She draggled all her petticoats, Coming through the rye! Coming through the rye, poor body, Coming through the rye, She draggled all her petticoats, Coming through the rye! Should a body meet a body Coming through the rye, Should a body kiss a body, Need a body cry? Should a body meet a body Coming through the glen, Should a body kiss a body, Need the world know? Should a body meet a body Coming through the grain, Should a body kiss a body, The thing is a body's own.

(This poem and its translation taken from http://robertburnsfederation.co.uk/poems/translations/coming_through_the_rye.htm)

Why do you think Salinger chose this poem as a title to his novel? The Catcher in the Rye as a classic American novel: -First, read the articles by Haberman, Chan, Roiphe, and Yardley. Also look over the Cultural References to Catcher article. We will discuss these articles, then discuss these questions. -Why is this novel considered an American classic? -Why is this book about an upper-class young man from New York City who repeatedly gets kicked out of boarding school so relatable to people? (The fascination with young men and boarding schools continues todaylook at Harry Potter, for example)

Group Activity: -Assign each group a few chapters (there are 26) and analyze Holden for: -contradictory/revealing statements -summarize each chapter in two-three sentences -have three quotes from each chapter that provide an insight into Holdens character Creative Assignment: Write in conversational prose, imitating the style of Salinger. You might want to write about a day in your life, or what you were really thinking when something did not go your way, but you kept it to yourself (much like Holden does). J.D. Salinger (1919- )the author; the legend:
American novelist and short story writer. Salinger published one novel and several short story collections between 1948-59. His best-known work is THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (1951), a story about a rebellious teenage schoolboy and his quixotic experiences in New York. J.D. Salinger was born and grew up in the fashionable apartment district of Manhattan, New York. He was the son of a prosperous Jewish importer of Kosher cheese and his Scotch-Irish wife. In his childhood the young Jerome was called Sonny. The family had a beautiful apartment on Park Avenue. After restless studies in prep schools, he was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy (1934-36), which he attended briefly. His friends from this period remember his sarcastic wit. In 1937 when he was eighteen and nineteen, Salinger spent five months in Europe. From 1937 to 1938 he studied at Ursinus College and New York University. He fell in love with Oona O'Neill, wrote her letters almost daily, and was later shocked when she married Charles Chaplin, who was much older than she. In 1939 Salinger took a class in short story writing at Columbia University under Whit Burnett, founder-editor of the Story Magazine. During World War II he was drafted into the infantry and was involved in the invasion of Normandy. Salinger's comrades considered him very brave, a genuine hero. During the first months in Europe Salinger managed to write stories and in Paris meet Ernest Hemingway. He was also involved in one of the bloodiest episodes of the war in Hrtgenwald, a useless battle, where he witnessed the horrors of war. In his celebrated story 'For Esm - With Love and Squalor' Salinger depicted a fatigued American soldier. He starts a correspondence with a thirteen-year-old British girl, which helps him to get a grip of life again. Salinger himself was hospitalized for stress according to his biographer Ian Hamilton. After serving in the Army Signal Corps and Counter-Intelligence Corps from 1942 to 1946, he devoted himself to writing. He played poker with other aspiring writers, but was considered a sour character who won all the time. He considered Hemingway and Steinbeck second rate writers but praised Melville. In 1945 Salinger married a French woman named Sylvia - she was a doctor. They were later divorced and in 1955 Salinger married Claire Douglas, the daughter of the British art critic Robert Langton Douglas. The marriage ended in divorce in 1967, when Salinger's retreat into his private world and Zen Buddhism only increased. Salinger's early short stories appeared in such magazines as Story, where his first story was published in 1940, Saturday Evening Post and Esquire, and then in the New Yorker, which published almost all of his later texts. In 1948 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish' appeared which introduced Seymour Glass, who commits suicide. It was the earliest reference to the Glass family, whose stories would go on to form the main corpus of his writing. The 'Glass cycle' continued in the collections FRANNY AND ZOOEY (1961), RAISE HIGH THE ROOF BEAM, CARPENTERS (1963) and SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION (1963). Several of the stories are narrated by Buddy Glass. 'Hapworth 16, 1924' is written in the form of a letter from summer camp, in which the seven-year-old Seymour draws a portrait of him and his younger brother Buddy. "When I look back, listen back, over the halfdozen or slightly more original poets we've had in America, as well as the numerous talented eccentric poets and - in

modern times, especially - the many gifted style deviates, I feel something close to a conviction that we have only three or four very nearly nonexpendable poets, and I think Seymour will eventually stand with those few." (from Seymour, An Introduction) Twenty stories published in Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and the New Yorker between 1941 and 1948 appeared in a pirated edition in 1974, THE COMPLETE UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF J.D. SALINGER (2 vols.). Many of them reflect Salinger's own service in the army. Later Salinger adopted Hindu-Buddhist influences. He became an ardent devotee of The Gospels of Sri Ramakrishna, a study of Hindu mysticism, which was translated into English by Swami Nikhilananda and Joseph Campbell. Salinger's first novel, The Catcher in the Rye, became immediately a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and won huge international acclaim. It sells still some 250 000 copies annually. Salinger did not do much to help publicity, and asked that his photograph should not be used in connection with the book. Later he has turned down requests for movie adaptations of the book. The first reviews of the work were mixed, although most critics considered it brilliant. The novel took its title from a line by Robert Burns, in which the protagonist Holden Caulfied misquoting it sees himself as a 'catcher in the rye' who must keep the world's children from falling off 'some crazy cliff'. The story is written in a monologue and in lively slang. The 16-year old restless hero - as Salinger was in his youth - runs away from school during his Christmas break to New York to find himself The humor of the novel places it in the tradition of Mark Twain's classical works, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, but its world-view is more disillusioned. Holden describes everything as 'phoney' and is constantly in search of sincerity. Holden represents the early hero of adolescent angst, but full of life, he is the great literary opposite of Goethe's young Werther. From time to time rumors spread that Salinger will publish another novel, or that he is publishing his work under a pseudonym, perhaps such as Thomas Pynchon. "Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)," Salinger wrote in Seymour - An Introduction. From the late 60's he has avoided publicity. Journalists have assumed, that because he doesn't give interviews, he has something to hide. In 1961 Time Magazine sent a team of reporters to investigate his private life. "I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure," said Salinger in 1974 to a New York Times correspondent. However, according to Joyce Maynard, who was close to the author for a long time from the 1970s, Salinger still writes, but nobody is allowed to see the work. Maynard was eighteen when she received a letter from the author, and after an intense correspondence she moved in with him. Ian Hamilton's unauthorized biography of Salinger was rewritten, when the author did not accept extensive quoting of his personal letters. The new version, In Search of J.D. Salinger, appeared in 1988. In 1992 a fire broke out in Salinger's Cornish house, but he managed to flee from the reporters who saw an opportunity to interview him. Since the late 80s Salinger has been married to Colleen O'Neill. Maynard's story of her relationship with Salinger, At Home in the World, appeared in October 1998. Salinger broke his silence through his lawyers in 2009, when they launch a legal action to stop the publication of an unauthorised sequel to the Caulfield's story, entitled 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye released in Britain under the pseudonym John David California. The 33-year-old Swedish writer, Fredrik Colting, has earlier published humor books. (Source: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/salinger.htm)

Article: Rye Dispute Is Gateway to Citys Past. By CLYDE HABERMAN. Published in The New York Times on June 19, 2009.
It sounded as if the judge did not want anyone to think she had never picked up a copy of J. D. Salingers Catcher in the Rye in her younger days.

I have read Judge Deborah A. Batts of United States District Court in Manhattan started to say, and then thought better of it. Let me rephrase that, she said. I have reread Catcher in the Rye. She noted that she had also just read a new book called 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye. She did not allow if she found it compelling enough to warrant a rereading. This is the work of a Swedish writer named Frederik Colting, who goes by J. D. California. If you think it is a coincidence that the pseudonym sounds a lot like J. D. Salinger, go to your room. The Colting book acquaints readers with a 76-year-old character called Mr. C. If you think it is a coincidence that Mr. C sounds a lot like Holden Caulfield 60 years on, go to your room and never come out. It is Judge Battss task to decide if 60 Years Later will see the light of day in the United States. It has been published in Britain, but through his lawyers, Mr. Salinger has gone to court to block publication in this country. This is about the only means we have to be assured that Mr. Salinger 90 years old and described by his literary agent in an affidavit as totally deaf and recovering from surgery for a broken hip is still among us. He is notoriously hermitic, and unpublished since 1965. There may be more claimed sightings of Bigfoot than of him. He is, however, sufficiently connected to modern America to file a lawsuit now and again when he believes his work has been exploited. Holden might sum up his creators feelings with words that he uses in a different context: God, how I hate that stuff. Most of the seats in Judge Battss courtroom were filled at a hearing on Wednesday. The legal implications were no doubt the main attraction. But a few people may have turned up in a misguided hope that Mr. Salinger would make an appearance, a wish as likely to be granted as a prayer for world peace, an end to poverty and a restoration of something akin to sanity in Albany. Only a fool or a columnist often one and the same would predict how a judge might rule based on questions put to lawyers. That said, Judge Batts didnt sound sympathetic to Mr. Coltings legal team, led by Edward H. Rosenthal. It would seem that Holden Caulfield is copyrighted, she said. On an assertion by Mr. Rosenthal that the Colting book is at root a critical commentary on Mr. Salinger and his best-known character, the judge sounded more than a tad skeptical. I am having trouble seeing that it exists, she said. But she withheld a final judgment on whether 60 Years Later may be distributed. A temporary order puts the book on hold at least through next week.

WHILE the focus was principally on the iconic Holden, as the lawyers referred to him, another character looms large. It, too, is iconic. Its called New York City. The Catcher in the Rye is not a bad vehicle to see how the physical city has changed over the last 60 years and yet how much of it seems eternal. Some hotels, like the Biltmore, where Holden waits near the clock for his date, are gone. So are movie theaters like the Paramount. But Central Park obviously endures. It still has a carousel, if not the same one that Holdens sister, Phoebe, rides on. Pennsylvania Station exists, but it, too, is different. Holden passes through the station that was unforgivably demolished in 1963. One entered the city like a god was the classic observation of the architecture historian Vincent Scully. With the dreary Penn Station of today, he said, one scuttles in now like a rat. Grand Central Terminal stands, though coin-operated lockers that Holden uses were removed long ago for security reasons. Radio City Music Hall goes on, in its fashion. For sure, so do the books two museums that abut Central Park the one where the pictures are and the one where the Indians are. A lawyer for Mr. Salinger, Marcia B. Paul, told Judge Batts that the author had a right to keep Holden Caulfield frozen in time for the life of his copyright. Some New Yorkers wish they could do the same with their city. But of course thats not possible, if only because endless financial pressures are hard to resist. As Holden says, In New York, boy, money really talks Im not kidding.

Article: Judge Rules for J.D. Salinger in Catcher Copyright Suit By SEWELL CHAN. Published July 2, 2009 in The New York Times.
In a victory for the reclusive writer J. D. Salinger, a federal judge on Wednesday indefinitely banned publication in the United States of a new book by a Swedish author that contains a 76-year-old version of Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye. The judge, Deborah A. Batts, of United States District Court in Manhattan, had granted a 10-day temporary restraining order last month against the author, Fredrik Colting, who wrote the new novel under the pen name John David California. In a 37-page ruling, Judge Batts issued a preliminary injunction indefinitely barring the publication, advertising or distribution of the book in this country after considering the merits of the case. The book has been published in Britain. In a suit filed on June 1, lawyers for Mr. Salinger in the copyright infringement lawsuit contended that the new work was derivative of Catcher and Holden Caulfield, and infringed on Mr. Salingers copyright.

The work by Mr. Colting, 33, centers on a 76-year-old Mr. C, the creation of a writer named Mr. Salinger. Although the name Holden Caulfield does not appear in the book, Mr. C is clearly Holden, one of the best-known adolescent figures in American fiction, aged 60 years. Mr. Coltings lawyers argued, among other things, that the new work, titled 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye, did not violate copyright because it amounted to a critical parody that had the effect of transforming the original work. Judge Batts rejected that argument, writing, The Court finds such contentions to be post-hoc rationalizations employed through vague generalizations about the alleged naivety of the original, rather than reasonably perceivable parody. The judges ruling weighed literary arguments made by both sides in the dispute. To the extent Colting claims to augment the purported portrait of Caulfield as a free-thinking, authentic and untainted youth, and impeccable judge of the people around him displayed in Catcher by show[ing] the effects of Holdens uncompromising world view, Judge Batts wrote, citing a memo submitted by Mr. Colting, those effects were already thoroughly depicted and apparent in Salingers own narrative about Caulfield. Judge Batts added: In fact, it can be argued that the contrast between Holdens authentic but critical and rebellious nature and his tendency toward depressive alienation is one of the key themes of Catcher. It is hardly parodic to repeat that same exercise in contrast, just because society and the characters have aged. While the case could still go to trial, Judge Battss ruling means that Mr. Coltings book cannot be published in the United States pending the resolution of the litigation, which could drag on for months or years. I am pretty blown away by the judges decision, Mr. Colting said in an e-mail message after the ruling. Call me an ignorant Swede, but the last thing I thought possible in the U.S. was that you banned books. Mr. Colting and his lawyer, Edward H. Rosenthal, said they would appeal. The decision means that members of the public are deprived of the chance to read the book and decide for themselves whether it adds to their understanding of Salinger and his work, Mr. Rosenthal said. Marcia B. Paul, a lawyer for Mr. Salinger, declined to comment on the decision.Mr. Salinger, who has not published any new work since 1965, has sued several times to protect his writing, including successful efforts to stop publication of some of his personal letters in a biography and to halt a staging of Catcher by a college theater company in San Francisco. He has also turned down requests, from Steven Spielberg, among others, for movie adaptations of Catcher.

Article: It Was, Like, All Dark and Stormy: Teenage readers are gravitating toward even grimmer fiction; suicide notes and death matches by Katie Roiphe. Originally published in The Wall Street Journal on June 6, 2009. Question to ask yourself as you read the article: Why do you think this type of grim fiction is so popular with teen readers?
Until recently, the young-adult fiction section at your local bookstore was a sea of nubile midriffs set against pink and turquoise backgrounds. Todays landscape features haunted girls staring out from dark or washed-out covers. Current young-adult best sellers include one suicide, one deadly car wreck, one life-threatening case of anorexia and one dystopian universe in which children fight to the death. Somewhere along the line our teenagers have become connoisseurs of disaster.

Gallery Stock Jay Ashers Thirteen Reasons Why, which is narrated by a dead girl, came out in October 2007 and remains on the bestseller list in hardcover. The book is the account of a fragile junior named Hannah Baker who kills herself by overdosing on pills and sends audiotapes to the 13 people she holds responsible for making her miserable in the last year of her life. There may be parents who are alarmed that their 12-year-olds are reading about suicide, or librarians who want to keep the book off the shelves, but the story is clearly connecting with its audiencethe book has sold over 200,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan. For those young readers who find death by pill overdose inadequately gruesome, theres Gayle Formans If I Stay, which takes as its subject a disfiguring car wreck. The book has sold a robust 17,000 copies in its first two months on sale, and was optioned by Catherine Hardwicke, the director of the film Twilight. The story follows an appealing cellist named Mia who goes on a drive to a bookstore with her unusually sympathetic ex-punk-rocker parents. When a truck barrels into their Buick, Mia hovers ghost-like over the scene. She sees her familys bodies crushed, then watches on as her own mangled body is bagged and rushed to the hospital. Lingering somewhere between this world and the next, Mia must decide whether to join her parents in the afterlife or go it alone in the real world. The brilliance of the book is the simplicity with which it captures the fundamental dilemma of adolescence: How does one separate from ones parents and forge an independent identity? Of all of these adolescent confrontations with death, Suzanne Collinss Hunger Games, which has sold over 120,000 copies since its September publication, is one of the more sophisticated. The story is set in a postapocalyptic future, in which a malign government takes one teenager of each sex from each district and pits them against each other in a televised arena until only one remains alive. The casual brutality of Gossip Girl and its ilk takes riveting form: the alliances formed and broken, the desperate feeling of being on ones own, the relentless competition. Every moment of the sick, macabre game is being broadcast, and much energy is spent on the clothes and the sponsors: it is a stylish postmodern Lost in direct collision with Lord of the Flies. Perhaps the most grueling of todays crop of dark books is Laurie Halse Andersons Wintergirls. The author is no stranger to bleaknessher 1999 novel Speak, about a deeply miserable girl who is raped at a party, was a National Book Award finalist. Her new book conjures the terrifying delusionary inner life of a girl in a very

advanced stage of anorexia. Lia starves herself in a fierce, paranoid state after her best friend dies of bulimia. While starving herself might seem an eloquent enough expression of self-hatred, Lia is also involved in cutting: In one brutal scene she sits in a darkened movie theater and carves little lines into her hip with razor blades, and later she cuts her chest with a knife as her 9-year-old half sister walks into the room and sees her. The book is at once riveting and repulsive to read, half Sylvia Plath, half diet manual. If I Stay The publisher of If I Stay says it has shipped over 80,000 copies of the title to booksellers.

To understand this recent wave of desperation lit, its useful to consider the history of books read by young adults that traffic in death and cruelty and mental illness. Think of Mary going blind in Little House on the Prairie or the ultimate institutionalization of Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye. Teenagers have historically shown a certain appetite for calamity; they like a little madness, sadism and disease in the books they curl up with at night. Right now, though, the motif of impending disasterabout a job that will be lost, a house that will be foreclosed, a case of swine flu that will sweep through the nationlooms large in our culture, and it may be no coincidence that the dominant ambiance of young-adult literature should be that of the car crash about to happen. Unsettling as it is, there is a certain amount of comfort to be gleaned from the new disaster fiction; it makes its readers feel less alone. What is striking in the response to these books is how many teenagers seem to identify with their characters, even though their experiences (suicide, car crashes, starvation, murder) would seem to place them on the outer fringes of normal life. It might appear to adults casually perusing Wintergirls and Thirteen Reasons Why that the kids and experiences within their covers are fairly uncommon and overwrought. But it seems that the extreme and unsettling situations chronicled in these books are, for many teenagers, accurate and realistic depictions of their inner lives. Your whole family may not have died in a car wreck, but it sometimes feels like they have. Everyone in the school cafeteria may not be plotting to kill you with bows and arrows, or knives, or mutant killer insects, but it feels like they are. In the theater of adolescence, with all the sturm and drang of separating from parents, with the total stress of just having to be yourself in the hallway at school, perhaps these books feel, at times, like a true and reasonable representation of daily life. It may be that the feverish drama of a 15-year-olds private universe finds its natural form in these tales of destruction and death. The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collinss The Hunger Games has sold 123,000 copies since its September, 2008 release.

Given the grim story lines, not to mention absence of designer shoes and haircuts that readers of lighter young adult titles are accustomed to, its easy to assume that this new batch of young-adult books peddles despair. In fact, the genre is more uplifting than the fizzy escapism that long dominated the young adult marketplace. Todays bestselling authors are careful to infuse the final scenes of these bleak explorations with an element of hope: The heroine wins the hunger games and does not die, Lia is headed toward recovery at the end of Wintergirls, Mia decides to live at the end of If I Stay, and Clay reaches out to another desperately unhappy girl in Thirteen Reasons Why, in the hope of saving her from Hannahs fate. There is, embedded in all of these grown up, gritty, unsettling books, the classic fairy tale reversal: the happyish ending. Ms. Anderson, in many ways the doyenne of this disturbing genre, says that ending on an encouraging note is part of my moral code. Teenagers need to see a model of hope and growth. As alarming as these books are, there is in all of this bleakness a wholesome and old-fashioned redemption that involves principles like triumph over adversity and affirmations of integrity. In the end, these investigations of personal disaster are much less depressing than the Gossip Girl knockoffs which initially seem frolicky and fun but are actually creepy and morally bereft and leave you feeling utterly hopeless. Corrections & Amplifications In the novel Thirteen Reasons Why, published in October 2007, the main character kills herself when she is a high-school junior. A previous version of this essay said the book was published in March 2007 and said the suicide happened freshman year. Also, in the novel Hunger Games, one teenager of each sex from each district competes in a competition to the death. Previously, the essay incorrectly said one teenager from each district competed.

Article: J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield, Aging Gracelessly By Jonathan Yardley Published on Tuesday, October 19, 2004; Page C01 in The Washington Post Assignment as you read the article: Do you agree or disagree with Yardleys viewpoint in this article? You will need to be able to do both in a classroom discussion.
(An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past.) Precisely how old I was when I first read "The Catcher in the Rye," I cannot recall. When it was published, in 1951, I was 12 years old, and thus may have been a trifle young for it. Within the next two or three years, though, I was on a forced march through a couple of schools similar to Pencey Prep, from which J.D. Salinger's 16-year-old

protagonist Holden Caulfield is dismissed as the novel begins, and I was an unhappy camper; what I had heard about "The Catcher in the Rye" surely convinced me that Caulfield was a kindred spirit. By then "The Catcher in the Rye" was already well on the way to the status it has long enjoyed as an essential document of American adolescence -- the novel that every high school English teacher reflexively puts on every summer reading list -- but I couldn't see what all the excitement was about. I shared Caulfield's contempt for "phonies" as well as his sense of being different and his loneliness, but he seemed to me just about as phony as those he criticized as well as an unregenerate whiner and egotist. It was easy enough to identify with his adolescent angst, but his puerile attitudinizing was something else altogether. That was then. This is half a century later. "The Catcher in the Rye" is now, you'll be told just about anywhere you ask, an "American classic," right up there with the book that was published the following year, Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." They are two of the most durable and beloved books in American literature and, by any reasonable critical standard, two of the worst. Rereading "The Catcher in the Rye" after all those years was almost literally a painful experience: The combination of Salinger's execrable prose and Caulfield's jejune narcissism produced effects comparable to mainlining castor oil. Over that half-century I'd pretty much forgotten about "The Catcher in the Rye," though scarcely about Salinger, whose celebrated reclusiveness has had the effect of keeping him in the public eye. He has published no books since "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction" in 1963, but plenty has been published about him, including Ian Hamilton's decidedly unauthorized biography, "In Search of J.D. Salinger" (1988); Joyce Maynard's self-serving account of her affair with him, "At Home in the World" (1998); and his daughter Margaret A. Salinger's (also self-serving) memoir, "Dream Catcher" (2000), not to mention reams of lit crit and fanzine fawning. Rumors repeatedly make their way across the land that Salinger is busily at his writing table, that his literary fecundity remains undiminished, that bank vaults in New England contain vast stores of unpublished Salingeriana, but to date all the speculation has come to naught, for which we should -- though too many people won't -- be grateful. If there's an odder duck in American literature than Salinger, his or her name doesn't come quickly to mind. He started out conventionally enough -- born in Manhattan in 1919, served (valiantly) in the infantry in Europe during World War II, wrote short stories that were published in respectable magazines, notably the New Yorker -- but he seems to have been totally undone by the fame that "The Catcher in the Rye" inflicted upon him. For nearly four decades he has been a semi-hermit (he married for the third time about a decade and a half ago) in his New England fastness, spurning journalists and fending off adoring fans, practicing the Zen Buddhism that seems to have become an obsession with him. It's weird, but it's also his business. If, Garbolike, he just vants to be alone, he's entitled. But whether calculated or not, his reclusiveness has created an aura that heightens, rather than diminishes, the mystique of "The Catcher in the Rye." It isn't just a novel, it's a dispatch from an unknown, mysterious universe, which may help explain the phenomenal sales it enjoys to this day: about 250,000 copies a year, with total worldwide sales over -- probably way over -- 10 million. The mass-market paperback I bought last summer is, incredibly, from the 42nd printing; for the astonishing price of $35,000 you can buy, online, a signed copy not of the first edition -- a signed copy of that, we must assume, would be almost literally priceless -- but of the 1951 Book-of-the-Month Club edition. Viewed from the vantage point of half a century, the novel raises more questions than it answers. Why is a book about a spoiled rich kid kicked out of a fancy prep school so widely read by ordinary Americans, the overwhelming majority of whom have limited means and attend, or attended, public schools? Why is Holden Caulfield nearly universally seen as "a symbol of purity and sensitivity" (as "The Oxford Companion to American Literature" puts it) when he's merely self-regarding and callow? Why do English teachers, whose responsibility is to teach good writing, repeatedly and reflexively require students to read a book as badly written as this one? That last question actually is easily answered: "The Catcher in the Rye" can be fobbed off on kids as a book about themselves. It is required reading as therapy, a way to encourage young people to bathe in the warm, soothing waters of resentment (all grown-ups are phonies) and self-pity without having to think a lucid thought. Like that

other (albeit marginally better) novel about lachrymose preppies, John Knowles's "A Separate Peace" (1960), "The Catcher in the Rye" touches adolescents' emotional buttons without putting their minds to work. It's easy for them, which makes it easy for teacher. What most struck me upon reading it for a second time was how sentimental -- how outright squishy -- it is. The novel is commonly represented as an expression of adolescent cynicism and rebellion -- a James Dean movie in print -- but from first page to last Salinger wants to have it both ways. Holden is a rebel and all that -- "the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life," "probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw" -- but he's a softy at heart. He's always pitying people -- "I felt sorry as hell for him, all of a sudden," "You had to feel a little sorry for the crazy sonuvabitch," "Real ugly girls have it tough. I feel so sorry for them sometimes" -- and he is positively a saint when it comes to his little sister, Phoebe. He buys a record for her, "Little Shirley Beans," and in the course of moping around Manhattan he does something clumsy that gives him the chance to show what a good-hearted guy he really is: "Then something terrible happened just as I got in the park. I dropped old Phoebe's record. It broke into about fifty pieces. It was in a big envelope and all, but it broke anyway. I damn near cried, it made me feel so terrible, but all I did was, I took the pieces out of the envelope and put them in my coat pocket. They weren't good for anything, but I didn't feel like just throwing them away. Then I went in the park. Boy, was it dark." Me, I damn near puked. That passage is flagrantly manipulative, a tug on the heartstrings aimed at bringing a tear to the eye. Ditto for Holden's brother, Allie: "He's dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946. You'd have liked him. He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent. His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class. And they weren't just shooting the crap. They really meant it." That's just easy exploitation of the reader's emotion. Give your protagonist a dead younger brother and a cute little sister -- not to mention a revered older brother, D.B., a gifted writer who sounds a whole lot like J.D. Salinger himself -- and the rest is strictly downhill. From first page to last, "The Catcher in the Rye" is an exercise in buttonpushing, and the biggest button it pushes is the adolescent's uncertainty and insecurity as he or she perches precariously between childhood, which is remembered fondly and wistfully, and adulthood, which is the great phony unknown. Indeed a case can be made that "The Catcher in the Rye" created adolescence as we now know it, a condition that barely existed until Salinger defined it. He established whining rebellion as essential to adolescence and it has remained such ever since. It was a short leap indeed from "The Catcher in the Rye" to "The Blackboard Jungle" to "Rebel Without a Cause" to Valley Girls to the multibillion-dollar industry that adolescent angst is today. The cheap sentimentality with which the novel is suffused reaches a climax of sorts when Holden's literary side comes to the fore. He flunks all his courses except English. "I'm quite illiterate," he says early in the book, "but I read a lot," which establishes the mixture of self-deprecation and self-congratulation that seems to appeal to so many readers. In one of the novel's more widely quoted passages he then says: "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though. I wouldn't mind calling this Isak Dinesen up. And Ring Lardner, except that D.B. told me he's dead." That Ring Lardner is one of Holden's favorite writers is a considerable, if wholly inadvertent, irony. Lardner was the master of the American vernacular who, as H.L. Mencken wrote, "set down common American with the utmost precision." Salinger, by contrast, can be seen straining at every turn to write the way an American teenager would speak, but he only produces an adult's unwitting parody of teen-speak. Unlike Lardner, Salinger has a tin ear. His characters forever say "ya" for "you," as in "ya know," which no American except perhaps a slapstick comedian ever has said. Americans say "yuh know" or "y'know," but never "ya know." "The Catcher in the Rye" is a maladroit, mawkish novel, but there can be no question about its popularity or influence. My own hunch is that the reason is the utter, innocent sincerity with which it was written. It may be manipulative, but it's not phony. A better, more cynical writer than Salinger easily could write a book about a

troubled yet appealing teenager, but its artifice and insincerity would be self-evident and readers would reject it as false. Whatever its shortcomings, "The Catcher in the Rye" is from the heart -- not Holden Caulfield's heart, but Jerome David Salinger's. He said everything he had to say in it, which may well be why he has said nothing else.

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The 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger has had a lasting influence[1][2] as it remains both a bestseller[3] and a frequently challenged book.[4][5][3] Numerous works in popular culture have referenced the novel.[6] [7] Factors contributing to the novel's mystique and impact include its portrayal of protagonist Holden Caulfield;[1] its tone of sincerity;[1] its themes of familial neglect,[8] tension between teens and society,[8][3] and rebellion;[8] its previous banned status;[9] and Salinger's reclusiveness.[1] The Catcher in the Rye has inspired "rewrites" which have been said to form their own genre.[10] On the other hand, there are examples of similarities between the novel and other works that were not intended by their authors,[8][11][12] which suggests that the novel is "present, at least spiritually, in ... any story line that involves quirky young people struggling to find their places in a society prone to reward conformity and condemn individuality."[3] While the novel is linked to several murders and murder attempts, it has been claimed that the novel's overall effect on society is "far more negative than positive."[3]The novel also helped popularize the slang verb "screw up".[13] Shootings The most well-known event associated with The Catcher in the Rye is arguably Mark David Chapman's shooting of John Lennon.[14] Chapman identified with the novel's narrator to the extent that he wanted to change his name to Holden Caulfield. On the night he shot Lennon, Chapman was found with a copy of the book in which he had written "This is my statement" and signed Holden's name.[15] Later, he read a passage from the novel to address the court during his sentencing.[16] Daniel Stashower speculated that Chapman had wanted Lennon's innocence to be preserved by death, inspired by Holden's wish to preserve children's innocence despite Holden's later realization that children should be left alone.[16] After John Hinckley, Jr.'s assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in 1981, police found The Catcher in the Rye among half a dozen other books in his hotel room.[17] Robert John Bardo, who murdered Rebecca Schaeffer, was carrying the book when he visited Schaeffer's apartment in Hollywood on July 18, 1989.[18] As numerous murders have been speculated to be connected to the novel, the film Conspiracy Theory depicts assassins brainwashed with an urge to purchase it.[15] Films Although Salinger has refused a film adaptation, many Hollywood films have based characters on Holden Caulfield. [8][19] Holden has been identified as "one of the most reproduced characters on film." Furthermore, many such films reference each other.[20]Anthony Caputi, a specialist in dramatic literature at Cornell University, claims that the novel inspires both "variations" and "imitations", comparing it with several coming-of-age films.[8]While screenwriter Mike White thought the influence of the novel may rise in Hollywood,[8] former CEO of The WB Jordan Levin said that the Academies behind the Emmys have lost touch with public tastes like Catcher in the Rye.[21] In The Collector (1965), which is based on the John Fowles novel (see below), Clegg cannot understand why Miranda likes the novel among her other tastes.[22]

In Annie Hall (1977), Woody Allen says that he only has books with the word death or dying in them. Diane Keaton holds a copy of The Catcher in the Rye and says, "What about this one?" The film, Taxi Driver (1976), follows Travis Bickle, who seems to be a representation of Holden Caulfield, only older and more confrontational. The list of similarities is long, from analyzing the fact that both of them obsess over women and try to protect the innocence of children, to the fact that both of them purchase a prostitute without actually having sex with her. They both live in New York City, and though they only see all of the filth in the city (as they are incredibly pessimistic), and vow to leave, neither of them actually departs. Mark David Chapman named "Catcher in the Rye" as the reason for his assassination of John Lennon, and the man who attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr., said that he was obsessed with "Taxi Driver," and he owned a copy of "Catcher" among other books. In The Shining (1980), Wendy is seen reading the novel, a foreshadowing of alienation similar to that of Holden.[23] The 1988 film Field of Dreams is based on the W. P. Kinsella book Shoeless Joe. In the film, one key subplot involves the main character, Ray Kinsella (played by Kevin Costner), kidnapping noted radical book author Terence Mann (played by James Earl Jones). The Mann character is described as having written some of the most controversial books of the 1960s, including The Boat Rocker. In the original book that this film is based on, the Kinsella character actually kidnaps Salinger. According to the DVD extras, the author and the film producers acknowledge the fact that Salinger begrudgingly allowed his namesake to be used as a character in the book, but asked that he not be portrayed on film in Field of Dreams. So the producers and screenwriter Phil Alden Robinson, in consultation with the author Kinsella, changed the Salinger role to that of the fictional Mann. In a direct omage to the book, the Mann character initially denies, then admits, about using the name John Kinsella in one of his short stories, and that John Kinsella is the name of Ray's father. Salinger used both the name Ray Kinsella in a short story, and later the name Richard Kinsella as one of Holden Caulfield's classmates in The Catcher in the Rye. In the 1990 play and 1993 film Six Degrees of Separation, the impostor Paul gives an analysis on the novel in a monologue.[24][25][26][27] According to him, the novel, a "manifesto of hate" against phonies, would have been the excuse[28] or defense[29] for Chapman and Hinckley's assassination attempts. In Singles (1992), Linda describes her ideal man as "the perfect combination of Mel Gibson and Holden Caulfield and the sexual revolution would just sweep us both away."[30] In Kicking and Screaming (1995), a student describes the main character of a classmate's novel as having "a little Holden Caulfield crossed with Humbert Humbert... And then in that sort of pseudo-Russian novel ilk.". In Jerry Maguire (1996), Jerry publishes a memo the cover of which he claims has a resemblance to the cover of The Catcher in the Rye. In Chasing Amy (1997) and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), both by Kevin Smith, there are characters named Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards, the latter of whom is named after Ed Banky, the gym teacher in the novel. In Conspiracy Theory (1997), Mel Gibson's character is programmed to buy the novel whenever he sees it, though he has never actually read it.[15] In Pleasantville (1998), Bud is asked by one of the teenage residents of Pleasantville what the book is about, as all literature had been out of reach to the citizens, on account of its controversial themes in that period of time. Bud tells the crowd of people what the book is about, then later it is one of the many images painted on the Police Station wall by Bud and a friend. In Rushmore (1998), the protagonist named Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), who was based on Holden Caulfield, has similar characteristics and interests as Holden does. In Cruel Intentions 2 (2000), Sebastian remarks that The Catcher in the Rye ruined him. Chasing Holden (2001) is named after Holden Caulfield.[31] The protagonist Neil relates his life to Holden's, skips class to go to New York City, goes on a road trip to New Hampshire to find J. D. Salinger, and contemplates killing Salinger with a gun.[32] In Go (2001), Tsubaki Sakurai asks Sugihara, "what are you reading? The Catcher in the Rye? Doesn't suit you." Screenwriter Mike White regards the novel as "part of a literary trend that goes back to Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Werther' (1774) ... I don't think Salinger discovered it. He just did the quintessential American version."[8] He thought the influence of the novel may rise in Hollywood,[8] and two of his 2002 films reflect

this. In Orange County, protagonist Shaun searches for the professor who wrote the book that changed his life.[8] In The Good Girl, protagonist Thomas Worther calls himself Holden and is seen reading the novel.[8][19] Incidentally, Thomas Worther is portrayed by actor Jake Gyllenhaal, whose production company, Nine Stories Productions, is named after Nine Stories by Salinger.[8] In Big Fat Liar (2002), Amanda Bynes's character is briefly seen tutoring a jock. Before Frankie Muniz's character walks in, she gives the jock a very brief thematic summary of The Catcher in the Rye, explaining that the story is not about "a catcher eating rye bread." Igby Goes Down (2002), originally intended to be a novel, has been interpreted as being inspired by The Catcher in the Rye,[20][19][33][34] but director and screenwriter Burr Steers said it is not a direct influence and the story is more of an autobiography.[8] On the influence of The Catcher in the Rye, Steers "liken[s] it to being a musician and being influenced by the music ingrained in you, like the Beatles."[8] In Spike Lee's 25th Hour (2002), based on David Benioff's 2001 novel The 25th Hour, the protagonist sees the words "F--- You!" written on a mirror in the bathroom of a bar. He goes on a virulent tirade against the city of New York, its people, and his friends. Finally remorseful, he blames himself for throwing his life away. He tries desperately to rub out the words.[35] In I Love Your Work, famous actor Gray Evans (Giovanni Ribisi) is confronted by a fan (Jason Lee) he's seen around a few times, which has disturbed him. The fan reaches inside his coat, causing Evans to punch him, leading to his arrest. After being released, during a conversation with his lawyer, Gray defends himself saying he thought he was going to be killed, but his lawyer says the fan only wanted him to sign his book. Gray replies 'it was Catcher in the f---ing Rye!' In Wedding Crashers (2005), Jeremy, in reference to Arthur Schopenhauer, says that he and "the guy who wrote Catcher in the Rye," among others, are part of one being.[36] The film Chapter 27 (a reference to the book) focuses on John Lennon's murderer, Mark David Chapman, the 3 days leading up to it, and his obsession with the novel. The film "The Killing of John Lennon" also revolves around Chapman and the book. In the film Tropic Thunder (2008), Cody Underwood (played by Danny McBride), the special effects technician, tells John Tayback (played by Nick Nolte), the fictional author of the book "Tropic Thunder" (on which the movie within the movie is based), that "Tropic Thunder is my Catcher in the Rye". Later, at the end of the film during the end credits, the song "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is played, the same song Holden Caulfield listens to as it's played by the carrousel in the final scene of The Catcher in the Rye. The movie Adventureland (2009) portrays a young man named James who experiences the troubles of growing up. James mentions that he could have lost his virginity plenty of times but it wasn't the right time just as Holden says in The Catcher in the Rye. Ryan Reynolds' character in Adventureland could be compared to Stradlater in "Catcher in the Rye". In the end of the movie James ends up going to New York almost as a transition to growing up.

Television In Saved By The Bell, Lisa asks a boy she likes, "What are you reading?" He responded with "Catcher in the Rye." Then she said "Oh I love baseball." In 8 Simple Rules, both Paul and Bridget say that The Catcher in the Rye is their favorite book. In an episode of American Dad!, Roger reveals a secret message in The Catcher in the Rye, which tells the location of Osama Bin Laden, also commenting that it's a 'Filthy, filthy book'. In an episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, an alien frat member asks , as a pun, if "Holden Caulfield is coming to the party." In the Canadian TV show "Trailer Park Boys" the character Bubbles says " With me and kitties it's kinda like that book Catcher in the Rye, did you ever read that one? I'm kinda like the guy who looks after the kitties in the park." In the Boy Meets World episode "Poetic License: An Ode to Holden Caulfield", Shawn has written a poem called "An Unpublished Manuscript for J.D. Salinger". Without knowing the author, Cory asks, "And haven't we had just about enough of Catcher in the Rye? I mean, what's [Salinger] written lately?" In the December 5, 2006 episode of The Colbert Report, Colbert suggested that Robert Gates should have ended every sentence with a quote from The Catcher in the Rye.[37]

In the Criminal Minds episode "The Last Word", both murderers use character names from the novel to communicate with each other, in reference its alleged popularity with murderers. In an episode of Dilbert, a man working at the complaints department of a company uses the fake name Holdem Callfielder when answering the phone. In an episode of Drake and Josh, Drake is asked what his favorite 20th century novel is. He says his favorite novel is The Catcher in the Rye. His teacher responds with "Wrong." In the episode of Fairly Oddparents, Timmy is seen bowling with books substituted for bowling pins. The Catcher In The Rye is being utilized as the front pin. In a Family Guy episode, "The Kiss Seen Around the World", a character continually harasses Peter for being "a big phony". During the credits this character is identified as Holden Caufield. In Season 4 of "Queer as Folk", Hunter reads "The Catcher in the Rye" for school, and has a brief conversation with Ben about it. In the Full House episode "Silence Is Not Golden", there is "a pointed endorsement" of the novel.[38] The anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex makes several references to the novel. The main story arc (the "Complex" episodes) involves the case of a cyber-terrorist known as the Laughing Man, named after Salinger's short story "The Laughing Man".[39] The Laughing Man's logo reads, "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes," a quote from the novel.[40][41][42] The logo resembles a baseball cap, inspired by the baseball team in the short story.[39] In episode 25 of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Mandy is seen reading The Catcher in the Rye. In an episode of Hey Arnold!, Arnold has the task of finding a reclusive children's author named Agatha Caulfield. In numerous episodes of Gilmore Girls, there are comparisons of Holden Caulfield and Jess, Stars Hollow's rebel. For instance, Rory says, "I guess that's what you have to do when you're trying to be Holden Caulfield". In the My Life as a Teenage Robot episode "The Boy Who Cried Robot", a man wearing sunglasses and a trenchcoat approaches a Bookmobile and asks the driver for a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. The driver grows irritated upon his request and responds, "Not today, Ed." In "My Name is Earl" Crabman creates many friends on BuddyBook, one being Holden Caufield. Crabman states that he lives in New York and his Occupation is "catcher" In several episodes of Recess, Mikey is shown writing poetry on his baseball glove. This is a reference to Holden's dead brother Allie, who wrote poetry on his baseball glove so he would have something to read while he was playing outfield. In an episode of Roseanne, Jackie walks in on Darlene, who is reading The Catcher in the Rye and the two discuss the book in relation to Darlene's feelings that she is in Holden's situation. In The Simpsons episode "Radioactive Man" (1995), in which Hollywood movie makers come to Springfield, there is a banner hung across the main street that reads "We [heart] Phonies", presumably a reference to Holden's disdain for "phonies".[43] In the episodes "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" and "24 Minutes", Lisa's pet peeve is also said to be phonies. In the episode "Krusty Gets Busted", Krusty holds a copy of the novel upside down, which refers to Mark David Chapman's arrest and obsession with the novel. In Homer the Heretic when Marge tells Bart and Lisa that Homer doesn't mean what he had said when he said that he had the best day ever by not going to church, Homer replies, "Like fun I don't". "Like fun" is used by Sunny from Catcher in the Rye. In South Park the episode The Ring Kenny is at a book store and a promo poster in the background entitles "The Catcher in the Rough" In Will & Grace, Jack asks Karen to accompany him somewhere, to which she replies, "I can't honey, I'm going to my Christian Book Club. This week we're burning The Catcher in the Rye." Phoebe Buffay, a character from the sitcom Friends, is said to be named after Holden's sister. In the Dawson's Creek episode Stolen Kisses (2000) the character William 'Will' Krudski states that The Catcher in the Rye is his favorite book. M*A*S*H a wounded soldier talks about the book while he is in post-op While in Thailand Korean Pop group SHINee featured the items in their bags. Among the items the boys carried was the book The Catcher in the Rye in Minho's bag. In the J-drama Smile Hana attempts to steal a copy of The Catcher in the Rye from a bookstore.

Video games In the action-adventure game Bully (2006), the main protagonist, Jimmy Hopkins, shares a lot of traits with Holden Caulfield.[44]

Books John Fowles's 1963 novel The Collector uses The Catcher in the Rye as "one of the most brilliant examples of adolescence" in popular culture, possibly under a moral light.[45] In it, Miranda encourages her kidnapper Clegg to read Catcher, thinking he might relate to Holden Caulfield's alienation.[15] However, Clegg finds Holden's actions unrealistic given Holden's wealth and status, and "[doesn't] see much point in it." In the film adaptation of The Collector, this conversation and Clegg's attitude toward the novel and popular culture is subdued.[46] The Collector novel has itself been linked to several serial killers.[15] Lawrence Block wrote a novel called Burglar in the Rye (1999) in his series on burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr. The plot focuses on an auction of a reclusive writer's letters,[47] and Bernie works to track down the character based on J. D. Salinger. In The Realm of Possibility by David Levithan, there is a chapter called "My Girlfriend Is In Love With Holden Caulfield" in which the narrator's girlfriend compares him to Holden. In his humor book This Book Sucks (based on MTV's Beavis and Butt-head characters), Mike Judge mentions the novel among a list of popular literature titles. The Beavis and Butt-head characters mistakenly believe that the main character (whom they believe is actually named "Catcher") calls everyone "phones". In Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, many characters say that Watanabe, the protagonist, has a speech style very similar to Holden. In the The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, the narrator recommends this book to the reader. The Frank Portman novel King Dork is centered around 'life-changing' books, The Catcher in the Rye most prominently. The protagonist is arguably a Holden Caulfield-esque outcast, but at the same time hates The Catcher in the Rye. The protagonist criticizes fans of the book, calling them the Catcher Cult, and says that pretending to love The Catcher in the Rye is a surefire way to get better grades. However, in the end he says that he likes the novel. An obvious reference to the book is King Dork's jacket cover, which is a 1985 Bantam copy of The Catcher in the Rye, ripped to shreds and scribbled over with the actual title of the book. In Neal Shusterman's 1999 novel Downsiders, some of the school freaks at Icharus Academy are mentioned to be "boys who dressed in black and carried around copies of The Catcher in the Rye." In W.P. Kinsella's 1982 novel Shoeless Joe, the main character discusses the significance of "Catcher in the Rye" and later kidnaps J.D. Salinger. In Francine Prose's novel After (2003), the main character is chastised for having the book in his possession because it is linked too strongly with violent behavior. In Galt Niederhoffer's novel A Taxonomy of Barnacles (2005), Bridget and Billy think about Holden's question as to the whereabouts of ducks during winter.[48] Ulrich Plenzdorf's Die neuen Leiden des jungen W. features a protagonist (Edgar Wibeau) that likes the book "The Catcher in the Rye". Furthermore, his style of writing itself reminds the reader of Salinger's. Bob Uecker, who was a catcher in Major League Baseball and known for his sense of humor, titled his autobiography Catcher in the Wry. Author Megan McCafferty admits to drawing many similarities between the protagonist of her novel Sloppy Firsts, Jessica Darling, and Holden Caulfield. Like Holden, Jessica is very alienated and critical of society. In Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas, the opening paragraphs are very similar to The Catcher in Rye's. James Patterson's novel Sail has one character referring to his nephew as "Holden Caulfield for the 21st Century". Brett Easton Ellis' novel Less Than Zero is said to be "The Catcher in the Rye for the MTV generation".

John Green (author) has compared his Looking for Alaska protagonist, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, to Holden Caulfield. Caulfield is referenced as "one of history's most famous literary bullshi---ers" in the Death Note novel, Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases. Robert Rosen's biography Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon contains a description of Mark David Chapman's sentencing hearing, in which the murderer reads from The Catcher in the Rye. The section is called "Chapter 27," a reference to Chapman's belief that by killing Lennon he'd write the missing chapter of The Catcher in the Rye in Lennon's blood. John David California wrote 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye (2009), an unauthorized sequel in which 76-year-old Holden escapes a retirement home for a journey in New York.[49]

Comic strips Music Ace of Base's single Life Is a Flower contains the line "No catcher in the rye, can help you from yourself." Aesop Rock's song "Save Yourself" contains the line "Naw man it wasn't me, it was Holden Caulfield, brother / I just read and pulled the trigger." The Ataris' song "If You Really Want to Hear About It" from their album End is Forever takes its title from the novel's opening sentence. The final lines paraphrase those of the book with "Don't ever tell anyone anything or else you'll wind up missing everybody." Several other specific references are made within the lyrics.[51] The Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution's song "Here's to Life" on their debut EP A Call to Arms references Holden Caulfield by stating: "Holden Caulfield is a friend of mine, we go drinking from time to time", and later addresses Caulfield's author, J.D. Salinger: "Hey there, Salinger, what did you do? Just when the world was looking to you to write anything that meant anything, you told us you were through. And it's been years since you passed away, but I see no plaque and I see no grave, and I can't help believing you wanted it that way." Beastie Boys's song "Shadrach" contains the rhyme "Got more stories than J. D. got Salinger, I hold the title and you are the challenger." Belle and Sebastian's song "Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie" contains the line "give yourself up to the allure of Catcher in the Rye." Bloodhound Gang's song "Magna Cum Nada (Most Likely To Suck)" begins with "Why try? I'm that guy Holden Caulfield from Catcher in the Rye, put away 'cause he wasn't all there." Bring Me The Horizon's song "Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody" on their album This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For is a quote from the novel. The Caulfields was an alternative rock band in the 1990s. Clem Snide's song "End of Love" references the book in the line "And the first thing every killer reads / is Catcher in the Rye." Down By Law's song "Superheros Wanted." The Divine Comedy's song "Gin Soaked Boy" contains the line "I'm the catcher in the rye." Epik High's instrumental album "Soundtrack to a Lost Film" has a song titled "Holden Caulfield". Everclear At the end of the video for "the boys are back in town" the main cast of the film "detroit rock city" (from the movie sound track from which the song is taken), burst into a dressing room where art Alexis is reading aloud an excerpt from the final page The Frazz character Caulfield is named after Holden.[50] In St. Swithin's Day, the teenage protagonist shoplifts a copy of The Catcher in the Rye from a bookshop so it can be found in his pocket "when this is all over." In Mike Allred's graphic novel The Oddity Odyssey, his character Madman can be seen reading a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. In Eyeshield 21, Taka Honjou of the Teikoku Gakuen Alexanders is seen reading the book. He is the ace wide receiver/cornerback of Teikoku and has never had to use his true ability. In Foxtrot, Jason claims his iguana, Quincy, ate it.

Everlast's song "So Long" contains the line "So with a tear in his eye, he's gonna catch 'em in the rye." Five Iron Frenzy's song "Superpowers" on their album Our Newest Album Ever! contains the line "Sometimes I feel I'm Holden Caulfield, sometimes Jack Kerouac." Matthew Good's song "Waiting for the Great Destruction" from his album Left of Normal contains the chorus "Maybe at my funeral they'll say i found the answers / they'll say i had it coming / they'll say i was just sittin' around. Waiting for the Great destruction, I am waiting for Holden Caulfield to call." Green Day's song "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?" on their album Kerplunk! is based on how frontman Billie Joe Armstrong could relate to Holden Caulfield as an outcast. Screeching Weasel responded to this with the song "I Wrote Holden Caulfield". "Basket Case", one of their most popular songs, is considerd to be related to the likesness of Caulfield. The Catcher in the Rye is Billie Joe's favorite book Guns N' Roses released a song on their 2008 album, Chinese Democracy called Catcher in the Rye. It originally featured Brian May on guitar, but his parts were replaced for the final version. The song is said to be about Mark David Chapman. Indochine's song "Des Fleurs Pour Salinger" (French for "Flowers For Salinger") portrays Salinger as a hermit trying to get away from the world's stupidity, and about the singer wanting to meet him. Near the end of the song, the following quote from the novel is whispered in French: "I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes. I'd marry this girl, that was also deaf and mute [...] I'd live near the woods but not in the woods." ("Je ferais semblant dtre sourd-muet /Et jpouserais cette fille /Sourde et muette /On vivra prs dun ruisseau, prs des bois /Mais pas dans les bois...") Jedi Mind Tricks's song "Trinity" contains the line "The one who's seated, on the throne within in a forcefield/You'll get tossed and feel lost like Holden Caulfield/Raw deal..." Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire" mentions the novel as a historic item of note during his lifetime.[52][53] Lyte Funky Ones' (LFO) song "6 Minutes" contains the line "Sometimes I feel like the Catcher in the Rye/ Sometimes I wish that I could catch her eye/ Sometimes I wish that I could be that guy". Komeda's song "Catcher" on their album Kokomemedada refers to Holden Caulfield's fantasy. Lyrics include "Who will catch your fall? Who will do it all?" and "There ain't no catcher in the rye." The Lawrence Arms's song "The Disaster March" on their album The Greatest Story Ever Told contains the lyrics "There was a time and a place that was all full of mistakesI was frustrated and angry. I was more than alive. A catcher in the rye." The Max Levine Ensemble's song "Love, Capital L" contains the line "and that's how I came to see how Holden Caulfield was your prophet." Nothingface's song "Machination" contains the line "Read 'Catcher In The Rye' a million and onetimes." The Offspring's song "Get It Right" contains the line "Like Holden Caulfield, I tell myself; There's got to be a better way." The Old 97's has a song called "Rollerskate Skinny" on their album Satellite Rides. Amanda Palmer's song "1.1.94" contains the line "It's very difficult when no one's there to catch you in the rye". Pencey Prep is named after the Holden's school. Several of their songs reference the novel. Piebald's song "Holden Caulfield" contains the lines "where do the ducks go in the wintertime" and "put my hat on and get out of here." Quarashi's song "Weirdo" references both the novel and the anime Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, which references the novel (see above). John Ralston's song "No Catcher in the Rye" on his album Needle Bed contains the line "Maybe there's no catcher in the rye." The Refreshments song "Good Year" states "I gave my Catcher in the Rye for your Cat's Cradle" The Bottle and Fresh Horses. Rollerskate Skinny, an Irish band who enjoyed success on Beggars Banquet and Warner Music Group in the 1990s, took their name from Holden's observation, "She's quite skinny, like me, but nice skinny, rollerskate skinny." Sarah Slean's song John XXIII contains the line "A plate of stars/Could never take the place of the Boy who swore to catch me/As I run through the rye."

Rick Springfield's song "3 Warning Shots" on Venus in Overdrive was written as an open letter to Mark David Chapman, "Holden Caulfield's stable boy". Springfield, a longtime Beatles fan, said the song was an inspiration that came from seeing the film The Killing of John Lennon. Spandau Ballet's song Code of Love on the album True contains the line, "And when love comes along its just a catcher in the rye. Its hard to make those long term plans.". Streetlight Manifesto's reworking of the Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution song "Here's to Life" makes the same aforementioned references to Holden Caulfield and J.D. Salinger. Sundowner's song "Jackson Underground" contains the line "I was lost in the rye, so lost in the rye, I was lost in the rye." Third Eye Blind's song "Why Can't You Be" contains the line "Like J.D. Salinger/Why Do I Challengeher" Too Much Joy's song "William Holden Caulfield" on their album Cereal Killers conflates the name of Holden Caulfield with the name of actor William Holden. It contains the lines "I'm afraid of people who like Catcher in the Rye / Yeah, I like it too, but someone tell me why / People he'd despise say, 'I feel like that guy' / I don't wanna grow up, 'cause I don't wanna die." Hailey Wojcik's upcoming EP will contain the song "Holden Caulfield", which she has been performing live. The comedy duo Adam and Andrew references the novel in their song, "Emo Kid" with the lyrics: "I'm just a bad, cheap imitation of goth/You can read me 'Catcher in the Rye,' Your Vegas references the novel in their eponymous song, "Your Vegas" with the lyrics: "The Catcher in the Rye / and the children on the ground / We're all in the lost and found."

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Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43680-2004Oct18.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. ""The Catcher in the Rye" is a maladroit, mawkish novel, but there can be no question about its popularity or influence." ^ Barry Roth (1964-01-05). "Brooklyn College". The New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C17FD345912738DDDAC0894D9405B848AF1D3. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. "...the "do you think you'll ever feel about me the way you used to feel about 'Catcher in the Rye'?" influence of the theater and movies often stimulates collegians to read these and other writers." ^ a b c d e Jeff Guinn (2001-08-10). "'Catcher in the Rye' still influences 50 years later" (fee required). Erie Times-News. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives? p_product=ET&p_theme=et&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct0=0EDCAD301800C85B&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D. Retrieved on 2007-12-18. Alternate URL. ^ "100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 19902000". American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlinks/100mostfrequently.htm. Retrieved on 2007-01-21. ^ List of most commonly challenged books from the list of the one hundred most important books of the 20th century by Radcliffe Publishing Course. ^ "'Rye' misfit's rugged spirit inspires works" (fee required). The Sacramento Bee. 2001-06-07. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives? p_product=SB&p_theme=sb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct0=0EC831DF2A54202C&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. ""The Catcher in the Rye" has influenced the work of many writers, filmmakers and musicians. Here's a look at some of the more notable entries..." ^ "Sixties to Howl Once Again in College Literature Course" (fee required). Telegram & Gazette. 2001-0408. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives? p_product=WO&p_theme=wo&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct0=0EB9EAB0A95F7BFF&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D.

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Retrieved on 2007-05-21. "Mr. Patterson explained his inclusion of a 1952 novel in his "Literature of the Sixties" course this way: "I kept seeing references to Holden Caulfield..." ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Nancy Mills (2002-08-25). "Holden Caulfield's many pretenders". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? f=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/25/PK45441.DTL&type=movies. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. ""Most young male characters in the movies are based on the character of Holden Caulfield," says Raymond Haberski... "It's been a very steady influence in the last 30 years." ^ "Banned Books Offer Classic Opportunities" (fee required). Sarasota Herald-Tribune. 1996-10-23. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives? p_product=HT&p_theme=ht&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct0=0EAFEA3BF023F923&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. "[...] one of the controversial books that has been censored in the past is J.D. Salinger's ``The Catcher in the Rye.' [...] all through his life he'd hear references to Holden Caufield and his crazy red hunting hat, and if he wanted to understand those references, [...]" ^ Louis Menand (2001-09-27). "Holden at fifty". The New Yorker. ^ Joy Karugu (2005-11-09). "Novelist Sittenfeld chronicles 'Prep' life". The Daily Princetonian. http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/11/09/news/13716.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. "That's an easy comparison people often make because of its setting and general topic." ^ Dale Peck (2007-09-23). "The Outsiders: 40 Years Later". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/books/review/Peck-t.html?pagewanted=print. Retrieved on 2007-1219. "...its likely that Hintons echo of the testimonial frame Salinger used in The Catcher in the Rye (If you really want to hear about it) wasnt consciously intended..." ^ William Safire (1990-04-08). "Screwing Up". The New York Times: pp. 2. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9C0CE2DF1138F93BA35757C0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2. Retrieved on 2007-1220. "Screw up, in this sense, is first found in a December 1942 issue of Yank, and was further popularized in the 1951 Catcher in the Rye, the famed novel by J. D. Salinger: Boy, it really screws up my sex life something awful." ^ Leslie Miller, Susan Wlosczyczna, Joh Chetwynd, Gary Levin, Claudia Puig, Mike Snider, Kevin V. Johnson (1999-04-22). "Kids, online and off, feast on violence". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/news/index/colo/colo22.htm. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. "Lindsay Doran, president of United Artists, says, "[...] You can't not like Catcher in the Rye because someone read it and killed John Lennon."" ^ a b c d e Aidan Doyle (2003-12-15). "When books kill". Salon.com. 2. http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2003/12/15/books_kill/index1.html. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. ^ a b Whitfield, 571572. ^ Whitfield, 572. ^ Linton Weeks (2000-09-10). "Telling on Dad". Amarillo Globe-News. http://www.amarillo.com/stories/091000/boo_tellingondad.shtml. Retrieved on 2009-01-13. ^ a b c Robert Wilonsky (2002-09-19). "Burr, Not Chilly". Phoenix New Times. http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2002-09-19/film/burr-not-chilly/. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. "Salinger would never allow such a thing, and it's a moot point, to boot. Catcher has been made and remade for decades under various noms de crap..." ^ a b Katrina Onstad (2008-02-22). "Beholden to Holden". CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/bartlett.html. ^ Michael Schneider (2001-07-12). "Snubbed WB huffy over 'Buffy'". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117802726.html?categoryid=14&cs=1. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. "If 'Catcher in the Rye' were released today, Academy members would look at the book and consider it a dimestore paperback." ^ Kirsten Markson (2002-11-03). "The Collector". PopMatters. http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/c/collector.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-12-19.

23. ^ Tom Dirks. "The Shining (1980)". Filmsite.org. http://www.filmsite.org/shin.html. Retrieved on 200712-18. "... "Wendy" ... who is reading The Catcher in the Rye. [There's a very subtle connection signaled here: the main protagonist in J. D. Salinger's novel Holden Caulfield, is an alienated and haunted teen, similar to Jack Torrance as an adult. Both experience sleep deprivation and dementia as a result.]" ^ Rita Kempley (1993-12-22). "Six Degrees of Separation". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpsrv/style/longterm/movies/videos/sixdegreesofseparationrkempley_a0a3dd.htm. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. "Guare ... expounds upon ... the violent subtext of "The Catcher in the Rye" ..." ^ Colin Van Hook (2002-04-16). "BC Professor Directs Six Degrees at Tufts". The Heights. http://media.www.bcheights.com/media/storage/paper144/news/2002/04/16/ArtsReview/Bc.Professor.Dire cts.Six.Degrees.At.Tufts-237080.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. "...he communicates the plays similar themes of the loss of imagination to something outside daily life..." ^ William A. Henry III (1990-06-25). "Six Degrees of Separation". Time. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,970446,00.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. "When the intruder starts to analyze The Catcher in the Rye in scholarly jargon, the hosts are spellbound by his vocabulary and miss the fact that his rap becomes comic nonsense." ^ Lauren Phillips (2002-04-01). "Color without structure". The Tufts Daily. http://media.www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2002/04/01/UndefinedSection/Color.Witho ut.Structure-1484266.shtml. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. "...Paul's frequent references to Holden Caufield's struggles in Catcher in the Rye." ^ Frank Rich (1990-07-01). "Stage View; A Guidebook to the Soul Of a City in Confusion". New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html? res=9C0CE3D9173DF932A35754C0A966958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all. Retrieved on 2007-1219. "...in Paul's view, that J. D. Salinger's touching, beautiful, sensitive story has been turned into a manifesto of hate by assassins like Mark David Chapman and John Hinckley who use Holden Caulfield's social estrangement as an excuse to commit murder." ^ Whitfield, 573. ^ Steven Rea (1992-09-18). "Sexual politics of two generations..." (fee required). The Philadelphia Inquirer. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives? p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_top doc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2A3DAB756C3D6&p_field_direct0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. ^ Michael Speier (2001-03-28). "'Holden' catches cast". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117795994.html?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. "Title is a reference to "The Catcher in the Rye" protag Holden Caulfield, around whom Kanan's script is based." ^ Christopher Null (2002). "Chasing Holden Movie Review". Filmcritic.com. http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/c313d5eea351d56a8 8256bcc00699931?OpenDocument. Retrieved on 2007-05-21. ^ J.J. Duncan (2002-11-04). "Film Review: Stellar performers, quirky characters make Salinger rip-off worth seeing". Kansas State Collegian, University Wire. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P169313860.html. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. "Screenwriting 101: Ripping off Salinger is a quick way of writing a decent movie about teen-age disillusionment." ^ Terry Lawson (2002-11-14). "Reviews and ratings of feature films". Detroit Free Press. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8936760_ITM. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. ""Catcher in the Rye" gone awry, this angst-filled dark comedy finds a prep-school dropout set adrift in New York City." ^ James Keith La Croix (2003-01-15). "25th Hour". Metro Times. http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/review.asp?id=72246. Retrieved on 2007-12-18. "In a moment right out of Catcher in the Rye, Monty notices fuck you written on a mens room mirror. The comment launches his mirror image into a screed against immigrants, ethnic minorities, Wall Street and finally himself. He cant rub the words out."

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