“The Catcher in the Rye” is a novel by J.D. Salinger, published in 1951. The story is narrated by a young man named Holden Caulfield, who is undergoing treatment in a mental hospital.
The novel details two days in the life of 16-year-old Holden after he has been expelled from prep school. Confused and disillusioned, Holden searches for truth and rails against the “phoniness” of the adult world. He ends up exhausted and emotionally unstable1. The events he narrates take place in the few days between the end of the fall school term and Christmas.
