Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories ? particularly A
Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing
Man, and For Esme ? With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the
fact that his first novel is fully of children. The hero-narrator of THE
CATCHER IN THE RYE is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker
named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude
adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania
and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself
is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment
about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden
is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty
but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this
novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's
voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet
remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated
cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and
poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for,
himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart.
It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.
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