قصة الكتاب :
“The Catcher in the Rye” is a 1951 novel by the American writer, Jerome David \"J. D.\" Salinger. It was translated into almost all of the world’s major languages and over 65 million copies have been sold. The novel became popular among teenage readers since Holden Caulfield, its protagonist, represents an icon for teenage rebellion, angst and alienation. It also attracted adult readers because it deals with the early years of a person’s life in which the personality is shaped. All this is presented using a vulgar and obscene language that is full of insults.
The novel tells the story of teenage Holden Caulfield who fails in school, continuously moving from one school to another and sees fake youth in his colleagues that is full of hypocrisy and unemployment. He also believes they are talentless and stupid, losers in romantic relationships, only succeed in boring and dull curricula and are instructed by equally non creative teachers. Holden’s vision extends include the society, the people in the streets, hotels, theaters, his girlfriends he met in the theaters and cinema halls, as well as taxi and bus drivers. For him, all those people put on a fake mask that reflects anything but their true intentions. The only people who were not targeted by Holden’s brutal language and obscene description was his sister Phoebe and his brother Allie who died young, as if he says that the only pure world is the innocent childhood.
However, in its symbolism, the story goes even deeper than that to the falsity that the new civilization has created, especially in its American form, and has transformed the human being into a number owned by a bureaucratic government that unemotionally and unfeelingly controls people’s fate.