"The Catcher in the Rye" Jerome D. Salinger

"Le receveur dans le seigle" Jerome D. Salinger. Téléchargez et lisez!

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Jerome D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye.

The novel is written on behalf of the seventeen-year-old Holden Colfield, who is on treatment at the clinic: he talks about the story that happened to him last winter and preceded his illness.

The events about which he narrates unfold in the pre-Christmas days of December 1949. Memories of the young man begin with the day of his departure from the closed school Pensi, from where he was expelled for poor progress.

In the morning Holden contacts her girlfriend Sally Hayes and invites her to the theater, to play with Alfred Lant and Lynn Fontaine. After that, he leaves the hotel, takes the luggage to the luggage room and leaves for breakfast.

In the restaurant he meets with two nuns, one of whom is a teacher of literature, and discusses with them read books, in particular, "Romeo and Juliet."

After breakfast, he goes to the music store, hoping to buy a little album for his younger sister with a song he likes, called "Little Shirley Binz", and he hears on the way, like a little boy is singing "If you caught someone in the evening in the rye ..."

The boy's song a little uplifting mood, he thinks about whether to call Jane Gallagher, about which he keeps warm memories, but postpones this idea. The play, which he goes with Sally, disappoints him.

After the performance, he goes with Sally to the skating rink, and after that he "breaks through": he impulsively admits Sally in his aversion to the school and to everything that surrounds him.

As a result, he insults Sally, and she, bursting into tears, leaves, despite his belated attempts to apologize.

After that, Holden tries to call Jane, but no one picks up the phone, and he goes to the cinema. Toward evening, he intersects with his acquaintance Karl Lewis, an arrogant student who considers Holden too infantile and, in response to his outpourings, advises him only to make an appointment for a psychoanalyst.

Holden remains alone, gets drunk and goes to the Central Park to check what is really happening to the ducks in winter, but on the way she breaks the record she bought for her sister.

In the end, he still decides to go home. By coincidence, there is no one at home, except for her sister, Phoebe; she, however, soon realizes that her older brother was expelled from school, and is very upset about this.

Holden shares with her his dream, inspired by a tune overheard before the performance (Phoebe remarks that this is a distorted poem by Robert Burns).