Catcher in the Rye, The

While Holden Caulfield is certainly a twentieth century anti-hero and an unreliable narrator of his own story, The Catcher in the Rye continues to be a compelling, influential read. It explores themes such as the protection on the innocent, alienation, the difficulties of maturing, and the phoniness of the adult world, all of which will capture students’ imaginations. Based on personal encounters, I suspect that if graduates were polled as to which novel they studied in high school had the greatest impact on them, Salinger’s best-known work would be one of the most frequently mentioned.

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