"The Catcher in the Rye" is a story of an emotionally disturebed young sixteen year old boy named Holden Caulfield. Holden is telling this in first person, although the whole thing is all one big flashback. The story is one of a young boy trying to grow up in an Adult world. Holden, being the Idealist that he is, searched to find everything that needs to be changed, but never gives an alternative to the …showed first 75 words of 242 total…

…showed last 75 words of 242 total…them. The story begins and end in the Mental Hospital or Resting Home as he called it. The story ends as Holden is talking to a doctor as if he were telling this whole story to the doctor. This is a symbolic ending to this story, because Holden always thought that he didn't need to share his depressing stories with other people. Also, he didn't like listening to other people tell him their depressing stories.