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39. Catcher In The Rye: JD Salinger’s American Rebel

The Book Club

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The Catcher Fantasy and Adult Phoniness

Dominic Sandbrook explains how Holden’s imagined catcher protects children from falling into adulthood, which he associates with compromise and inauthenticity.

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