"The Catcher in The Rye"

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The paper analyzes the character of Holden Caufield and his profound struggle with his adolescence as well as his obsessive and irrational desire to preserve the innocence of other children. The paper examines the relationships with his sister Phoebe, his dead brother, Allie and his childhood friend, Jane Gallagher. The paper traces his gradual psychological decline and eventual breakdown.

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"The novel, "The Catcher In The Rye" by J.D. Salinger, is a painful story about growing up and the loss of innocence. It is an account of a teenager's profound struggle with the difficult stages that make up the passage from adolescence to adulthood.
"It is obvious from the opening page of Salinger's book, that the narrator, Holden Caulfield, has not successfully navigated his passage through adolescence. At the beginning of the book, Holden is already in a mental institution having suffered some sort of mental breakdown. He tells his story in a first person flashback and refers to his "lousy childhood". In describing the story he is about to tell, Holden says: "I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me .....just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy." (Salinger, p. 1)"

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