Catcher And The Rye

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Submitted by madnotes on May 15, 2008

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Catcher And The Rye

The Catcher and the Rye: Tragedy or Comedy?

In the novel The Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger, I viewed the novel as a tragedy. This novel is based on a sixteen-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield who has not decided what he wants to pursue in life. From the beginning of the novel you get an assumption of what state of mind Holden is in. He began saying in the text “ IF YOU REALLY want to hear about is, the first thing you’ll proberly want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied….” This first sentence basically foretells what type of novel this will solely be based on. His childhood has...

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