Holden Caulfield (Major Literary Characters)

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Review: I'm the type who could go on for hours about Holden and Pheobe and Ally's mitt and the girl who plays checkers and keeps the kings in the back. Everybody will obviously find their own meanings and understandings to these side reveries Holden takes us through. I just couldn't pass the opportunity to comment on the reviewers who said that Holden rambled and bored them in some ways. I wonder if these were the kids who had to read the book as assigned reading in a class they took in high school or college. I reccommend they go back.. cause I always go back to The Catcher and discover a new dawning of what Holden is trying to communicate to me. Try reading it again, it's not that big of a book you know. And maybe this time you'll see it's not really boring useless ramblings. It's a great deal more. That's the greatest part of this book.

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Summary: It was a good book but it rambled on about nothing somtimes.
Review: The book over all was a good book , but in some places Holden seems to go on about nothing. There was a lot of description that was not needed. I think Holden seemed alot older that a 17 year old boy. I am 18 and i cannot see my self being alone in a city all by myself and staying in a hotel like that. In other places he seemed really immature though. For example when he was in the bar and he kept asking for a little rum in his coke, and when he met the girls in the lavander room. I think the reason I think he was older is because he is street smart. He has the ability to survive on the streets, but he is very in experienced in dealing with people. He has said that he had been with girls but we know that he didn't. He was very interested in hearing about sex stories. I think he was a very lonely and frustrated boy who needed love and care. His parents were never there for him and he needed then very badly. He went over the edge when he thouht that that man was trying to be perverted when he felt his head. I think he needed help badly and finally realized that from Pheobe. The book was an overall good book that I can relate to because I know how lonely it is not to have a family. I liked the book and think it was very well written.

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Summary: Rambling .. So?
Review: To the person who said Holden "talked too much" duder .. that was the point! I'm a female in love with that book and it's like, sometimes all you do is sit some where and ramble on and on about nothing of any importance. I think THAT was what made Holden so real. He over-analyzed quite a bit, which I think a lot of self concious teens do. I don't think this book so much describes all adolescents, just like Siddhartha doesn't speak the view of every Middle Easterner. You can't write a book and say "This here story is one that every (-fill-in-space-) can identify with." I personally DO agree with a lot of things he has to say but some of my friends think he is full of s***. Anyway ... thats my review :P