The past three weeks I have been reading the novel The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger. It takes place back in the middle nineteen hundreds.
The story is about a College student whom attends college at Pencey University. This is his third school in his many years attending college. His name is Holden Caulfield. The reason being he gets very low grades such as all F's and every once and awhile he may pass a class. At Pencey, he is the manager of the fencing team and all the snobs that attend the college know him as a nobody. Except the people not welcomed by anyone and his roommate is a built football player.
Holden has two brothers and a sister. His older brothers' name is D.B., he is a writer, and he does screen plays in Hollywood. His other brother, Allie; unfortunately is deceased. He died a couple years before Holden started to attend his second college. Now his sister is a big part of Holden
A day later Holden decided that he would go out west and work on a ranch to make some big bucks and stay away from civilization. Therefore, he goes to his sister's school and has the secretary give her a note telling her to meet him at the museum during lunch break so he can say good-bye to her. Only when she meets him there she has a suitcase full of personal goods. She told him that she wanted to leave with him and she started crying and that's made him realize that he had to stay and be by his family for awhile before he went back to school to get his degree.
However, in the end Holden turns out to be not really that bad of a guy. He never really was but he just struggled with the standards that everyone else expected him. Not only did he struggle with his school but he also had trouble getting along with women, meaning he could not get into a serious relationship. Besides all of this, he turns to his family for help but they end up turn
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