It's a question Holden Caulfield, the moody teenage narrator of the classic novel "The Catcher in the Rye," asks about the ducks in the Central Park pond. And it's a question that Sara Cedar ...

I read “The Catcher in the Rye” for the first time as a college student, and now I’m convinced that most people read the book too early.

My Beef with Holden Caulfield: On the 60th Anniversary of The Catcher in the Rye I went to Catholic high school, and because I really didn’t begin to read for pleasure until my sophomore year of ...

Judaism did not play a role in the author's 'Catcher in the Rye,' but that doesn't mean his work was devoid of spirituality.

Lardner and Salinger Early in The Catcher in the Rye, after a pronouncement worthy of You Know Me Al — “I’m quite illiterate, but I read a lot” — Holden Caulfield goes on to say that his “next ...

The writer who crafted The Catcher in the Rye’s famous “all-that-David-Copperfield-kind-of-crap” opening sentence clearly had another character in mind in the story’s “Holden Morrisey Caulfield,” who ...

Holden Caulfield, the novel's protagonist, envisions himself as the "catcher" who stands in a field of rye and catches children who are about to fall off a cliff.

The title of the book, "The Catcher in the Rye," connects to the first line by reflecting Holden's desire to protect the innocence of childhood. It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything.