/lit/ - Literature

>>9981277
>"the book is about loss!"
>brother revealed to be dead in the beginning of the book
>literally never brought up again
>character acts less grieving and more just moody for the rest of the story

>"it's about innocence!"
>the world is phony
>character imagines himself saving kids in a field of rye
>that's it

You're talking shit. The book hardly recognizes the very stuff it's designed to address, or at least what people claim it's supposed to.

>Holden is likeable at all
The only barely redeeming quality of Holden is that, in the epilogue, he grows up and decides to return to school because he misses his old acquaintances. However, this is called into questions, since not even a fucking chapter ago he was considering embarkinnout west. The only reason he didn't is because he was convinced otherwise by a little fucking girl. Even before that, he wanted to run away with a girl he hadn't met up with in ages, much less into the "wilderness."
The kid has the mental capacity and forethought of a retarded fish. How can you like someone who isn't just stupid, but thinks he's smarter than the world around him? Literally kys.