Holden Caulfield

by Harold Bloom

Book Overview

- Examines the most complex and memorable characters in Western literature - A selection of critical essays provides in-depth analysis of the character considered in each volume - A concise character... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 079100953X
• ISBN13: 9780791009536
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

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I'm the type who could go on for hours about Holden and Pheobe and Ally's mitt and the girl who plays checkers and keeps the kings in the back. Everybody will obviously find their own meanings and understandings to these side reveries Holden takes us through. I just couldn't pass the opportunity to comment on the reviewers who said that Holden rambled and bored them in some ways. I wonder if these were the kids who had to read the book as assigned reading in a class they took in high school or college. I reccommend they go back.. cause I always go back to The Catcher and discover a new dawning of what Holden is trying to communicate to me. Try reading it again, it's not that big of a book you know. And maybe this time you'll see it's not really boring useless ramblings. It's a great deal more. That's the greatest part of this book.

i see my self in place of holden he is so real .

This is one book which is close to reality, a book which relates to you ,as if i would have written this book if i ever had the guts to run away , to stay alone depressed and all . its hard to forget what your past was all the kids you meet may be good may be bad may be some you hated but its like you remember certain moments of certain days not that somthing special happened that day may be nothing happened but still you can picture it . Holden's character is one to which all the youths can identify with . I did not get the meaning of the title till Holden tells Phobey about what he wants to be , "THE CATCHER IN THE RYE".I probably want to be ,i don't know what but somebody different somebody good , a person who has certain amount of "HUMAN TOUCH". It is just that i seem to lose my way like holden. Holden was a dreamer , a child depressed by the circumstances . Its the best book i ever read or probably will ever read , definately no.1 book of all times.

Beautiful

Here's why it's so good...we all believe in Holden as a character more than we do Salinger as a writer. The brilliance of J.D. - Let your star take your bows for you.

Holden Caulfield: Someone to relate to!

I LOVE "Catcher in the Rye". One reason is because if you've ever been 16 or 17...you may be able to understand. Being a kid myself, I'm sick of all these unrealistic TV characters that are supposedly role models for us. Maybe I'm just strange, but virtually nothing that these kids on TV come across are things average kids encounter every day in real life. This book is timeless... Even though a lot has changed since the 1950's, kids still struggle with the same emotions and problems today. I'm sure you'll like Salinger's tale of a confused boy one summer by himself in New York City, just starting to discover the world.

Rambling .. So?

To the person who said Holden "talked too much" duder .. that was the point! I'm a female in love with that book and it's like, sometimes all you do is sit some where and ramble on and on about nothing of any importance. I think THAT was what made Holden so real. He over-analyzed quite a bit, which I think a lot of self concious teens do. I don't think this book so much describes all adolescents, just like Siddhartha doesn't speak the view of every Middle Easterner. You can't write a book and say "This here story is one that every (-fill-in-space-) can identify with." I personally DO agree with a lot of things he has to say but some of my friends think he is full of s***. Anyway ... thats my review :P