“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”- Holden Caulfield
Writing Style
The story is fiction. It is a modern classic of the coming of age genre. The protagonist, Holden Caulfield, narrates in a first person perspective. He speaks in a typical teenager way with old 50's slang. He provides a commentary on the events describing what he sees and experiences giving us a sense of what is happening. The book was organized chronologically. In conclusion, the book was well written. For that reason, it was very easy to follow.