in it he wrote "This is my statement," and signed as Holden Caulfield. The next year, police found a copy of The Catcher in the Rye at the home of John Hinckley Jr. after he attempted to ...

Between high school and college I read The Catcher in the Rye five times ... Thomas says that Holden “thinks everything is fake, everyone is acting like someone they aren’t, and there isn ...

Critical readers have to look no further than Holden’s self-described dream job: being a literal catcher in the rye: “I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field ...

Today is J.D. Salinger’s 100th birthday, but Holden Caulfield is still 17. The iconic teenager of The Catcher in the Rye will forever be a symbol of our youthful alienation. Although a few ...

"If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies," says Holden Caulfield. "Don't even mention them to me." The young hero of J.D. Salinger's 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye" is often described as ...

"The Catcher in the Rye" explores themes of loneliness ... someone about your experiences makes you miss them suggests that Holden feels a deep void when he opens up to others, as it highlights ...

Artist Anne Zahalka credits Holden Caulfield, the fictional character in The Catcher in the Rye, for changing the way she approached her art. While working in New York in the early 1980s ...

Many classic works of literature, including “The Odyssey,” “Catcher in the Rye,” “Brave New World,” and “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,” have sexually explicit scenes.