/lit/ - Literature

>>16241220
>it is a completely accurate look inside the head of a shitty rich teenager like I was
Which is why the novel works, it sets out to engender empathy in kids like Holden and sympathy for him in adults.
Never are his actions really condoned, rather they are explain as best possible in the words of the mentally ill teenager who does them. The reader is left with the 'why' and armed with a primary source to figure it out.