What the fuck was his problem?
>>25202291phonies
>>25202291John Lenon
>>25202291Jews
the same problem most of 4chan has, puberty hormones
>>25202291he was a teenager
he’s a child.
He was a sweet innocent boy>>25202302Also this
dick too big
>>25202291Refusal to compromise moral clarity in the ways that matter (e.g. running away instead of studying) while subverting it simultaneously (e.g. lying about that bully to his mom)Look at how much the bastard talks about movies. it's amazing nobody ever drawn a connection between his film-rants and /v/ schizos.
He rapes his sister, Phoebe.
>>25202291He thought ducks could hibernate in frozen water.
>>25202302It's strange that the general consensus is you are supposed to grow out of your Holden Caulfield phase and accept the world's flaws. Salinger seems pretty convinced that you can never be fully liberated from the alienation of being an introspective type in adulthood. Seymour Glass kills himself and Franny Glass has a breakdown. Both were adults in different stages of their lives. I guess it outs me as a potential Beatles-killer, but I still agree with Caulfield's perspective on performative behavior in my 30s. It's true that he's a hypocrite, but he seems less hypocritical than the people around him, especially considering the trauma and depression he is struggling with. The truer limus test is how other people feel about Caulfield--if they are unable to relate or they consider him annoying, they surely must be less aware of the human condition. Not more mentally well.
>>25205437I always thought Catcher in the Rye is basically perfect- it captures every nuance of what it's like to be a teenager at the cusp of adulthood, and the bitterness of realizing that you will need to join that amorphous category of human whether you want to or not, to see every adult as a traitor to themselves because they put away teenage rebellion and individuality...But like a teenager, his thoughts are flawed because he's perceiving adulthood from the outside. He has not yet experienced it, and so he dreads it, because he hasn't yet learned that you don't have to blindly conform to some horribly dull reality.When reading the book as a teenager, Holden Caulfield is unequivocally correct. Everything he says and feels rings true. But as an adult, you know that what he thinks and feels is immature and childish. That's why reading The Catcher in the Rye as an adult is annoying, because Holden feels so immature. But that's the point.
unironically, he was right about everything.The world is fake and gay and filled with dickheads. What's wrong with saying it?
