Contemporary North American Teenager and The Catcher in the Rye.

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Contemporary North American Teenager and The Catcher in the Rye

How many people in the world are not aware of, at least some of, the sordid aspects of the American cultural landscape? In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the behaviour and attitudes displayed by Holden Caulfield, the novel's protagonist do much to bolster a unflattering stereotype of the contemporary North American teenager. Many students encounter difficulty within themselves regarding school work or relationship with one another. Numbers of scenes of prostitutions have been found all over the America. Innumerable teenagers are involved in sexual activities and drugs. There are three significant characters and plots within them captured in The Catcher in the Rye who show the contemptible side of the American cultural landscape of the present.

Holden Caulfield's cynical and jaded narration leads chapter by chapter in The Catcher in the Rye. An American teenager's wandering life is well-illustrated through Holden's journey, from his school, Pencey Prep, to New York. Holden has to leave school and is afraid to tell his parents so he goes to New York. The statistics from the National Centre for Education Statistics and the U. S. Department of Education