One of the main things that adults should understand about teenagers from Catcher in the Rye is that teenagers are under a lot of stress. It sounds dumb like, “Oh boo hoo you have to do homework and go to soccer practice poor baby” but there’s a lot more to it than that. Clearly this book does not address all the issues facing teens but it does talk about a few. First is being …showed first 75 words of 631 total…

…showed last 75 words of 631 total…dilemma. Catcher in the Rye doesn’t deal with Holden interacting with his peers all that much, aside from saying how much he hates them. That is one of the ways this book is unrealistic; you never see Holden’s peers change and then Holden’s reaction to the change. Granted it would be hard to display that considering the book spans about a week but it’s still an issue that teens face today.