Steinel offers a different view on the censorship of Catcher in the Rye, stating that she believes that censorship was more based off of the fact that the book depicted postwar America poorly, not that it was obscene. She wrote that “On the surface, then, Catcher in the Rye is a rather mundane novel--it is not immediately clear why it has gained the lasting affection…” (Steinel). She agrees that the book is a bit vulgar and reviews a count of the bad words in the book, showing that “bastards” was used 58 time in the book by count of an upset parent. Looking past this, she realized only few arguments such as these actually got the book banned. Deeper arguments revolved around the fact that the book “effectively portrays postwar America as a
