>Wah wah nobody understands me The book
>>24776144If only her politics weren't so weird.
>>24776144Isn't that the point? It's a lesson to cynical adolescents then even though you may be somewhat right in your critiques and assessments of people, you yourself are also a person with the same flaws you see in others and if you continue down this path you'll end up bitter, lonely and unfulfilled.
>>24776176Boring piece of shit that could have been a short story, no depth no real meaning, just whining.
>>24776182>too dumb to understand fucking Catcher in the RyeMaybe reading just isn't for you anon
>>24776144>>24776182Anon's subconscious recognised himself in the books and so he lashes out it, while not even understanding why.
>>24776176it's not a lesson>>24776182holden and his perceptions and his mannerisms is incredibly well fleshed out and narrative is made out of so many set pieces for a plot where "nothing happens" and its very rarely emotionally obvious. there is a strange indirection to most of it. finding holden annoying is a completely valid reaction, but not being impressed with the level of stylized reality he has is not.
>>24776189I am currently reading Finnegans Wake, Sallinger's work is shit.>>24776195Kek, if that were the case I would feel uncomfortable, yet a) not a teenager b) Holden is a retard even for teenager standards
>>24776144I HATE him!
>>24776144He rapes his sister, Phoebe.
>>24776788I must have missed that chapter.And don't call me Phoebe.
>>24776816Happens between the two chapters when he sneaks into his parents home at the same time of night he failed to fuck the woman his age on a date or the child prostitute can't find her, remembers she hides in his big brother's room for safety (from his father, see page 1). "Oh why did you have to go do that," she said, by which she meant.READHARDERLENNY
>>24776144I'm at the point where his roommate wants him to write his essay