Given a contemporary context, would Holden Caulfield seem different? His range of activities would appear grossly changed by the changing times but does that suffice to change his thinking?

WASHINGTON -- With those words, 16-year-old Holden Caulfield slouched into American ... subtly explored how the integrity of personality is problematic. But in the 1950s, worry about "conformity ...

Actor and producer Edward Norton shares his memories of reading The Catcher of Rye as an adolescent, and his analysis of the character Holden Caulfield and the way author J.D. Salinger uses ...

"Most young male characters in the movies are based on the character of Holden Caulfield," says Raymond Haberski, 33, author of "It's Only a Movie! Films and Critics in American Culture." ...

We were wrapping up our end-of-book project for “The Catcher in the Rye,” which involved students interviewing a character chatbot designed to mimic the personality and speaking style of Holden ...