"I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy." (p. 1)
So says Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye as he begins the tale of his descent into a nervous breakdown that goes almost completely unnoticed by the people around him who are supposed to care about the 16 year old boy dealing with the death of his younger brother in 1950s NYC. See if you would miss the signs of inevitable mental collapse as you read The Catcher in the Rye.
Salinger, J D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. Print.
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