An absolutely endearing hero.

An absolutely endearing hero.

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Holden Caulfield is a 17 year old from the New York bourgeoisie which is fired from his college. He will not dare to go home before her parents to have wandered right and left in the adventure. He tells us this fugue during the three days before Christmas.
He read many books in the library. It has a culture. It is a dreamy soft heart. It is full of contradictions: he says one thing and its opposite in the same sentence.
He worships her family, her siblings and her parents.
But he is afraid, afraid of almost everything. He despises.
What made him say
"Actually, I'm really the only idiot of the family. "
It must be said that the drive is quite baffled initially by the style of this novel is in fact the author tell the story of this adventurous wandering vagabond by Holden himself, with his words and formulas lemporte room style plain spoken and a bit cheesy. And as always in this kind of novel, it takes time to appreciate dadaptation: we must get under the skin of Holden, and progress made, this book becomes a real treat.
Holden is a simple, without a second thought, he announced his words with a host of truths, for he is a keen observer of society that it deems severely. He has a sense of humor and derision from quite involuntary and no one misses daucune incongruity:
With the taxi driver:
"Hey, tell you have seen the ducks near Central Park South? The small lake? You do not happen to know where they go these ducks, when the lake is completely frozen? "
At the dancing:
"I've danced with the three girls; an ugly dancing not too bad but the other, cétait the disaster; it looked carry around the Statue of Liberty around the track. The only way to not suffer too much in cétait dragging her to tell him jokes. So I told him I had seen Gary Cooper at the other end of the room. "
In quest of adventure sexual, it is kind in his confession:
"Sexually excited and threw everything but I was a little worried. If you want to know, well, I am a virgin? No kidding. Jai yet had several opportunities to more Letre but I'm not gone after Completion. It always happens something. "
Lucidly, Holden ponders the fate of all these girls that he sees in bars or clubs where he hangs. :
"You could not help but wonder what would happen to these girls. Lorsquelles come out of college, I mean. You could be sure that most would marry with guys completely abrutisDes terribly stingy guys. Guys who ever read a book. Super pest guys. "
At the cemetery where is buried his brother Allie:
"I hope that when I die someone will have the sense to jump into a river. Nimporte rather than what the cemetery. With people coming on Sundays ask you a bunch of flowers on your stomach and all that crap. Is quon needs flowers when you're dead? "
You end up liking this touching and endearing character, that kid lost quest Holden and what seemed at first like a light sen madness away through the chapters. His obsessive delusions, including with the ducks in Central Park make you smile every time.
There is much tenderness in this book a lot of love and hidden.
On the merits, the author jajouterai that has been able to demonstrate the ambiguities of adolescence: Holden respects childhood in loccurrence his young sister Phoebe, a paradise and is wary of adults throughout. Sometimes he reacts like a child and sometimes as ladulte that it will be, depending on the situation.
The malaise of Holden is a hypersensitive boy and rebel, his torments the lead to impulsive reactions, spontaneous but often excessive.
One can say without exaggeration that this novel was published in 1945 and remains a true literary UFO.