Adolescent Crisis in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

Abstract

[...] J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye (1951) entirely devoted to a teenager’s problems and difficulties he had to face from the beginning to the end of the book. Salinger, with this novel, gained a critical and popular acclaim that put him among the most significant post-World War II American novelists. The subject of the novel is the difficulties of growing up, searching for friendship and deep, personal relationships and the lonely voyage from innocence to experience with a unique child in the centre.