Quicklet on J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

I got pretty run-down

The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has

Where does a person’s true self go, it could be asked more explicitly, when they are indoctrinated into the adult world of phoniness and deception?

“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad,” he laments. This seems to be caused by a mutual failure to live up to the other person’s expectations.

He is neither “boy” nor adult, nor does he want to be either one.

“Catcher in the Rye.”

admits to the reader that he is a virgin

loss of innocence