In many ways, Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, is immature and an unreliable narrator. He is depressing, childish, judgmental, dishonest about himself and others, and even a foul-mouth. On paper, Holden seems like an all-around unlikable person, and some readers find it hard to care at all for him. But despite his cynical, rebellious nature, many readers and characters in the book empathize with and even like Holden.
Having flunked out of four schools…
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