But Holden Caulfield, a half-century ago, he was different. Holden was mad at everyone not because it was one of the lifestyle options for teenagers of his generation but because, after 16 years ...

About those ducks . . . One of the things that Holden Caulfield ponders in “Catcher in the Rye” is what happens to the ducks in the Central Park duck pond when winter arrives.

The Catcher in the Rye turns 60 this month. That puts Holden Caulfield in his mid-70s, near the end of his natural lifespan, but in many ways he continues to dominate American culture as he did in ...

So The Catcher in the Rye may have enriched a few vocabularies. But despite the book’s enormous popularity, Holden Caulfield did not become the Pied Piper of doom for American youth.

Like the song's namesake novel, the video opens on a sullen Holden Caulfield character, complete with a red hunting cap and a suitcase in hand, smoking and strolling aimlessly down the sidewalk.

The Catcher in the Rye, a book everyone loves to love, celebrates its 65th anniversary this month, and I settled down once again for a couple of hours in the familiar company of Holden Caulfield.

IDEAS Holden Caulfield, 70 years on The protagonist of ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ spoke for a generation. Does his voice resonate still?

“If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies,” says Holden Caulfield. “Don’t even mention them to me.” The young hero of J.D. Salinger’s 1951 novel “The Catcher in the Rye” is ...

Of Ducks And Men: Holden Caulfield's Hard Questions At 15, author Jessica Shattuck found a sense of kinship with J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye character and his fascination with the fate of ...

“The Catcher in the Rye” immediately went into academic quarantine, to keep Holden’s potentially subversive effect away from the impressionable young minds of real-life teenagers.