The Catcher in the Rye

I thought The Catcher in the Rye was a really good book. Although the novel didn’t have the normal set up like most books, (beginning, middle, end, climax, resolution, ect.) it still had a good storyline. The whole book was about Holden Caulfield and his life, and all of the problems he faces in New York. I noticed that the book was written as if it were pages from a journal and that made it more interesting in my opinion. Throughout the whole book you can tell everything that Caulfield is thinking in detail. It makes the reader apart of the book. I read through some of the blogs that my peers wrote and I noticed that in someone’s blog post they mentioned that Holden Caulfield says “you” throughout the whole book. It makes it like he is speaking to someone he knows or a friend. I never thought about it like that. I really liked the wording in the book too. Holden is speaking to the reader as if we are sitting across from him. J.D. Salinger is a very unique author and this book was very interesting to read. I think it takes a great author to make a book good without a climax or normal book set up.
The book was a little bit depressing. It makes me feel sorry for Holden because he is always alone and seems like he is seeking something that he will never find. In the book Holden’s brother Allie died and I think that had a huge impact on his life and made him the way he is in the book. He is always alone walking the streets of New York looking for someone to talk to. It makes me wonder if his whole family is like this because of Allie’s death. Holden sometimes gets himself in trouble in an attempt to have some company. For example, the prostitute that he hires, when she arrives he just wants to have a conversation because he is desperate to talk to someone. He underpays her and then gets beat up, and he is back to being depressed.