Catcher in the Rye is a fiction book written by J.D. Salinger in 1945. In the book the main character, Holden Caulfield, narrates to us the 1950’s memory of his final day at the school Pency Prep and the mental breakdown he suffered in his expedition on the streets of New York. In Catcher in the Rye there were certain important characters that need to be mentioned. The was the main character Holden Caulfield. In …showed first 75 words of 633 total…

…showed last 75 words of 633 total…help him not to disappear. This was the worst part of his nervous breakdown. The book ends with Holden taking Phoebe to the zoo and happily watching her ride the merry-go-round. He then leaves us by saying that he is resting now and he is going back to school in the fall and that he wishes that he hadn’t told this story to so many people because talking about it makes him miss everyone.