Holden hardly thinks about the implications his actions have towards his future, mainly because he doesn’t seem to care about it. He is worried about kindness rather than material wealth. He loathes phonies. He smokes, drinks, swears, and most likely listens to the devils music. He hates his parents, but he is still dependent on them. This can be said of most teenagers today. The tensions created when someone is trying to find their own identity can be tremendous. It can drive people to the edge of insanity. Holdenwho was already extremely unstable in the membrane, completely loses it. He is not willing to face the facts of his future. Many teens are the same way today. The live fast die young attitude has really caught on to our culture. The youth are idolized and encouraged to live on the wild side. The fact that this book was first published in the 1950’s it was somewhat ahead of its time. Salinger’s book however did pave the way for the rise of the teenager in our culture. Beginning in the fifties corporations realized that teenagers were a very large market. From then on media and all sorts of entertainment hasbeen aimed out teen audiences. The fact that Catcher in the Rye was originally written for adults, but now has become a classic among teens and young adults, really verifies the shift in popular culture towards
Holden hardly thinks about the implications his actions have towards his future, mainly because he doesn’t seem to care about it. He is worried about kindness rather than material wealth. He loathes phonies. He smokes, drinks, swears, and most likely listens to the devils music. He hates his parents, but he is still dependent on them. This can be said of most teenagers today. The tensions created when someone is trying to find their own identity can be tremendous. It can drive people to the edge of insanity. Holdenwho was already extremely unstable in the membrane, completely loses it. He is not willing to face the facts of his future. Many teens are the same way today. The live fast die young attitude has really caught on to our culture. The youth are idolized and encouraged to live on the wild side. The fact that this book was first published in the 1950’s it was somewhat ahead of its time. Salinger’s book however did pave the way for the rise of the teenager in our culture. Beginning in the fifties corporations realized that teenagers were a very large market. From then on media and all sorts of entertainment hasbeen aimed out teen audiences. The fact that Catcher in the Rye was originally written for adults, but now has become a classic among teens and young adults, really verifies the shift in popular culture towards