Essays on CLassic
Please don't make me disappear The Catcher in the Rye
Holden could be annoying if he weren’t a teenager but a middle-aged man. This main character in The Catcher in the Rye can’t stand the sight of anything. He hates school, he hates his classmates, he hates his parents. He even hates people who like to say “good luck,” people who say “nice to meet you,” and people who applaud unquestioningly at piano recitals. And, of course, he hates math, physics, geography, history, and everything else except writing. Having someone who can’t even take pleasure in learning isn’t charming. The point is that there is no “social cause” for his misery. Living in his time and country, he can neither complain about the “authoritarian society that distorts human nature”...
Pollen