Graphic Image The Catcher in the Rye Red Bonded Leather
The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart.