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Many an educator seconds Hero Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in the Rye, whose wry view of "Pencey Prep" echoes the language repeatedly used in advertising military academies. For military schools are widely scorned as something akin to reform schools with tuition-handy places for the rich or the divorced to dump incorrigible offspring. "Military schools are a symbol of the abdication of parental responsibility," scoffs one non-military headmaster...
Three years ago, when I met Holden Caulfield, we were both 16, and it was the afternoon before my first day of college. His restlessness was my restlessness; his bravado, my bravado; his confusion, my confusion. I realized then that I was neither unique nor alone in my feelings...
...Jack Skow is to be highly commended, on the whole, for a job admirably well done despite the unfortunate misnomer of "scatologer" in reference to Holden Caulfield. The kid practically tells you that he's talking to you like you were some goddam long-lost buddy or something, and naturally he's not going to sound like he was talking to those nuns...
Some readers also object to the book's italicized talkiness. But the talk, like the book itself, is dazzling, joyous and satisfying. Holden Caulfield was a gentle heart who lacked the strength to survive; Zooey and his sister in the end are harried but whole. Above all, by sheer force of eye and ear?rather than by psychologizing, which he detests?Salinger has given them, like Holden, an astonishing degree of life, a stunning and detailed air of presence. So real are the Glasses in fact (an American student in Venice remembers that some one called him excitedly from...
...learning heavily fortified with boxwood hedges and Revolutionary War cannon against dangers lurking in the Pennsylvania hills. Although the school is a recognizable model for Pencey Prep, the neurosis farm in Catcher, young Salinger?who talked of grabbing the big loot as a Hollywood writer-producer?was no Holden Caulfield. Classmate Alton McCloskey, first sergeant in Corporal Salinger's B Company and now a retired milk dealer in Lock Haven, Pa., remembers crawling through the fence with Salinger after lights out to poach local beer taps, but he is sure that Salinger never went AWOL, as Holden did, and practiced...