I just finished JD Salinger‘s The Catcher in the Rye. After “Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing everybody”, I looked for more. There were a few blank pages . . . . but nothing else. So I thought a bit. How long was he in a mental hospital? What happened to Phoebe . . . . did Holden hurt her?
research . . . . no meaningful discussion of the end. A lot written about the banning of the book and how Holden Caulfield was such a rebel. No wonder the story as a whole didn’t strike me–I know a few dozen children that make Holden look like a choirboy. Smoking, cursing, sex . . . . big deal. This is what passes for troubled in 1950. Sadly . . . . it’s a whole new world.
School № 841 