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The Great Gatsby
est:
I don't understand how people could dislike either of these books, but I guess to each their own.
dr.sangaygupta:
--- Quote from: audacity on 12 Dec 2007, 06:38 ---Haha, it's not that the Catcher in the Rye was a bad book, per se.
I just didn't like Salinger's writing style. I felt it could have been written by anybody, and didn't deserve the praise it received.
--- End quote ---
i think that is what made Salinger's book all that more appealing. he wrote it so that no matter who you were you could understand Holden's point of view, or at least make a sympethetic connection with his issues through out the book.
fear of becoming an adult.
the hypocratic "adult world".
that all ties back into the title of the novel itself.
est:
Hypocratic? Do you mean hypocritical? Either way I think that one point is that he is already a self-centred hypocritical asshole and is projecting that onto the rest of the world.
dr.sangaygupta:
well...yes he does that, but it is more of a self-defense mechanism rather than a conscious decision he is making. he is constntly sheilding himself from the outside world by shrinking back into his fantasy world.
Johnny C:
The core irony of the book is that said self-defense mechanism turns him into exactly the sort of cynical, two-faced asshole he despises.
So good. Such rich subtext. Such fantastic characters.
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