In my limited network of young people, Catcher is not only no longer beloved, it has become something even more tragic: uncool.īut is it as simple as Electric Literature posits – that if you’re not white, privileged and male, it’s hard to see yourself in Holden? After all, this is partly why I wrote my coming-of-age novel The Falconer, told from the perspective of a young woman in early 1990s New York. I’ve had conversations about Catcher with undergraduate students in creative writing classes I’ve taught, and every one has complained about disliking Holden. Where’s The Catcher in the Rye for the majority of readers who are too non-young, non-white, and non-male to be able to stand listening to Holden Caulfield feel sorry for himself?” Electric Literature gave this explanation of The Catcher in the Rye’s datedness: “If you’re a white, relatively affluent, permanently grouchy young man with no real problems at all, it’s extraordinarily relatable. This might explain why Holden Caulfield, once the universal everyteen, does not speak to this generation in the way he’s spoken to young people in the past. Angst is universal, but the content of it is particular. Teen angst, once regarded as stubbornly generic, is actually a product of each person’s unique circumstances: gender, race, class, era.
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In the early fifties, however, a teenager would rather die than discuss sex with his parents. With time the topic is not as controversial as it used to be. One of the illusions you have as a child is the way you yourself are conceived. Find out how, and how his misinterpretation is significant.
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*weet – wet, draigl't – draggled, gin – if, should cry – call out, warl – world, ken – know, ain – own The title of the novel is based on a poem/song by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
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If I'm on the way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. However, Holden admits that we cannot trust him: "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. Holden is a first-person narrator and as readers we have to depend on him to reveal the story.
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