The Catcher In The Rye

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to visit his little sister, Phoebe, to say good bye. He admires her a lot and they communicate very well. Holden realises that there are things he cannot solve by him self, and decides to rejoin his family. The style of the book is very unusual because it is told by a sixteen-year-old boy. It can give you some problems because some of the things he tells about and observe might not be true, but extremely exaggerated. We are not even sure that he is mentally stabile since the writer of the book J. D. Salinger lets Holden tell the story from a hospital bed. Although the problems the style of writing lets us better understand and get involved in Holdens problems and persona. We also get to know Holden through the characters surrounding him. I get the impression that he likes young people better than old people. He refers to his parents as distant, one example is: "…my parents would have two haemorrhages apiece if I told anything personal about them. They're quite touchy about that, ...

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