The Catcher in the Rye is a very descriptive story about a eighteen year old boy named Holden Caulfield. J.D. Salinger shows the character's true emotions. Holden goes to a college named Pency College, where he is having educational problems. Holden doesn't seem to do too well in any of his classes, except for English. If his parents only knew what he was thinking, they would see a totally different side of him. Holden's …showed first 75 words of 1056 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1056 total…standing on the edge of a cliff, and he has to catch anybody who is going over the cliff, or doesn't know where they are going. He fantasizes that his life would be so easy, and all he would have to do is just keep the kids off the edge. He is trying to save a generation from turning into bad people, from falling off the cliff. He would be The Catcher in the Rye.