The goalkeeper in the oat field

Author: J.D. Salinger Publisher: Dar Al-Mada Year of publication: 2017 Category: Novel This novel is often compared to James Joyce's novel (Ulysses). Because both novels are important landmarks that paved the way for the transformations that occurred in Western novel writing. The novel "The Catcher in the Rye" is considered a beginning and a model for writings later known as the writings of the angry. And the generation of rejection in America expressed its adoption of this novel when it raised the slogan "We are all Holden Caulfield," which is the name of the hero of this novel. This novel expresses the disgust and moral repulsion experienced by a sixteen-year-old boy towards American society. Everyone is disgusting and contemptible except children, especially children who have died. The key to this novel is the word "hypocrisy" that recurs throughout the novel. Except for children, everyone is hypocritical. The hero Holden Caulfield's dream was to live in a cabin on the edge of a forest, where he would not meet any humans. And it is thought-provoking that the author later achieved this dream. He withdrew himself from American society to live in a cabin on the edge of a forest, where he sees no humans. Even his wife only contacts him by phone.