Summary Of Catcher In The Rye

The book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is about a boy named Holden Caufield who’s 16 years old (Salinger 21), getting over the fact that he’s just been expelled for his fourth school in the past couple of years. The story takes place in the late 1940’s. The plot is the events that take place in a novel/story. The story begins with Holden just getting his bad news. He doesn’t waste anytime packing his stuff and getting off the campus since he flunked out cause he hated the school and everyone in it. After yelling “Sleep tight, ya morons” (Salinger 52) to his “no longer” dorm, he heads to the train station in the middle of the night to catch a train to New York City. Once he reaches Manhattan, with nowhere else to go and no one to …show more content…
Obviously she tells him no, hoping that he’s not serious which results in them arguing and Holden telling Sally “You give me a real pain in the ass, if you want to know the truth” (Salinger 133) and everything going even farther downhill for Holden. Later on that night he finds a bar he’s able to get drinks at and gets completely wasted which forces him to fumble home where he runs into his little sister, Phoebe, home alone because his parents are out. He explains with little detail what happened to him and why he’s home earlier than he should be when suddenly his parents return home and he has no choice but to leave out the window since he doesn’t want them to know he’s home and expelled from his school. For the rest of the night he sleeps for a few hours at an ex-teachers house but quickly leaves after being given a somewhat uncomfortable gesture from his teacher then sleeps on a bench in grand central station. That next morning he goes to meet up with his little sister at her school and the story ends with him explain to the reader that he didn’t want to tell the rest of the story about how he got sick and whatever for the sake of not boring the reader. Point-of-view is the narrator’s position in the story. The point-of-view in this story is first person. Throughout the story Holden …show more content…
My story takes place in around the late 1940’s in Manhattan, New York City. If the story had taken place somewhere else the story might be completely different. He could have died from spending so much time outside in the cold or maybe his home would have been too far from the school and he had no choice but to stay till he was sent home by the school then the story might have never happened. Then if the story would have taken place at like a later time, for example this year 2014, he wouldn’t be allowed into any bar to drink or any hotel to check in. they would call the police and he would be taken home and once again the story would have never