The novel covers a few important days in the life of Holden Caulfield, a tall, skinny, highly critical and depressed teenager who academically flunked out of Pencey Prep, a boarding school. Holden is 17 when he tells the story; he was 16 when the events occurred. Because he is so critical of others, and points out their faults only to exhibit them himself later, Holden is widely considered to be an unreliable narrator, expressed in one statement at the beginning of the story: "I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come here and take it easy." Thus, the details and events of his story are apt to be distorted by his point of view. His penchant for wild exaggeration only serves to exacerbate this.

His story starts on Holden's last day at Pencey Prep. He is standing on the crest of a hill that overlooks the school's football field. It is the final game of the season, but Holden has never cared......

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Title: Catcher In The Rye
Approximate Word Count: 3338
Approximate Pages: 14 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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