This review will contain spoilers, so if you want to avoid knowing all the details of the sparse and meaningless plot, maybe skip the first couple of paragraphs. Holden Caulfield is a self-important, spoiled and worthless little shit. At the start of the book, he is cooling his heels at the fourth boarding school he’s been expelled from because he just can’t be bothered to even try to apply himself (having failed four out of five subjects completely), and generally bitching about how phony his […]
On a Journey with Holden
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those that read the catcher in the rye and scoff at the overrated “enlightenment” spewing forth on the pages and those that read it to dive into the memories and bravery in adolescence lost. I am of the latter category. I read the catcher in the rye to be comforted, to say, along with Holden, goodbye to everything that is my life. Just let them go, one by one and walk into the night.