The catcher in the rye

Today I’m going to talk about one of my favorites books, “The catcher in the rye”, a Jerome Salinger’s novel published on 1951. Probably you heard something about this book, for example that the John Lennon’s murder had it in his hands when he committed this crime.

But, anyway, this isn’t important if we think about the story. The novel tells us the Holden Caulfield’s story, a teenager who was expulsed of his school and then went to New York to spent time before meet with her parents and sister. This sounds a little crazy and also like a typical story of a rebel young, but it isn’t of this way. The trouble he had  is that he didn’t want to grow up because the world of the adults is disgusting. He thinks it’s full of hypocrisy, lies, superficiality and stuffs like these.  As the story progresses we can appreciate this point of view, specially at the end of the book. The message we can find at the end is beautiful and confortable, but not easy to take.

To finish with this post I put a Wilhelm Stekel’s quote cited in the book.

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”