you're not meant to identify with holden, no

>>7509933
Lel
It's not about being meant to or not

>>7509925
Holden did nothing wrong.

Yes. People are phonies and they only pretend to like things.

>>7509933
Yes, you are. Salinger was a manbaby pedophile who literally thought he was still a teenager. He switched publishers when the original editor said he thought Holden was mentally ill.

>>7509971
Is mentally ill protagonist something wrong?

>>7509976
Salinger identified unironically with Holden so the editor calling the character crazy insulted the author.

>being this edgy

are you 12?

rape is never justified

Just go read Falkner's statement on Catcher, it explains it pretty well imo.

He was afraid of inpurity and artificiality of adult life