The controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye, first appeared in 1951. Jerome David Salinger created a literary masterpiece by fabricating the adolescent Holden Caulfield into a victim of society. This modernistic category of hero delights nearly all modern English literature supporters. Holden Caulfield explains to his psychoanalyst a four-day flashback in the manner a of a "confession" throughout The Catcher in the Rye. The narrative commences as Holden fails another private school and prepares to leave Pencey Prep. The mission of in ....