Jan 4, 2010

The Catcher in the Rye | Ideas for Reports and Papers

1. Compare and contrast Holden and Huckleberry Finn. How does their adolescent inexperience permit their creators, Salinger and Mark Twain, to assert moral values?

2. Several of Salinger's own writer peers have criticized his books for being naively romantic and juvenile in their point of view. Research the criticism of Salinger and support or refute such arguments.

3. Holden frequently refers to Hollywood and New York's Madison Avenue as American centers of phoniness. The capitals of American movie making and advertising, these locales symbolize for Holden the creation...