Behrman, S.N. “S.N. Behrman on Holden’s Innocence.” J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in The Rye Bloom’s Notes. (1996) : 24-25.

• Holden’s juvenile behavior brings humor to the book
• Longs for stability (like the museum) and can’t handle change around him
• Holden doesn’t have the knowledge or mental clarity to trace and define the dissolution around him
• He will be alright

Jones, Ernest.  “Ernest Jones on Holden’s Alienation from Society.”  J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Bloom’s Notes. (1996): 25-26.

• Holden’s personality traits all come from his adolescence
• He thinks spontaneous acts are madness, but feels guilty and boastful afterwards
• Holden is alienated from everyone and everything except Phoebe who embodies innocence and wisdom
• Jones thinks the whole book is boring and predictable

Faulkner, William.  “William Faulkner on Holden as an Anachronism.” J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye Bloom’s Notes. (1996): 31-32.

• Sister is the only person who likes Holden, but even she can’t understand his problem.
• He wants something to love but couldn’t find it
• He’s trying to cope with present day world he doesn’t fit into.

Brookeman, Christopher. “Pencey Preppy: Cultural Codes in The Catcher in the Rye.” New Essays on The Catcher in the Rye. (1991): 57-76.

• Holden is a figure of adolescent rebellion in American culture
• Holden represents American individualism & shows psychic disturbances caused by post-industrial society
• Parental authority has declined in modern America
• American prep school is an instrument for social control
• What Holden says about Pencey makes him conclude that the prep school is an ideology of competitive struggle between people using caring people as a mask

Stevick, Philip. “J.D. Salinger” DLB. Vol. 102. Detroit: Gale, 1991. 258-263.

• Shocked at vulgarity in The Catcher in the Rye
• Salinger’s fiction is threatening and subversive
• Salinger wanted to undermine pieties of official culture
• Holden’s brother speaks to Holden like Salinger does to his children (brightness and vulnerability)

“Anna Freud and J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caufield.” Literature Online. 2000. Virginia Quarterly Review. 5 Oct. 2004 <http://0-lion.chadwyck.com.lrc.cod.edu>.

• Holden brings the reader to connect with his creator
• Salinger’s swears and slurs are shocking but enticing
• Catcher in the Rye is more a biography than a fiction

“J.D. Salinger,” MagillonAuthors. 2000. Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Second Revised Edition. 5 Oct. 2004 <http://0-search.epnet.com.lrc.cod-edu>.

• The central problem in his fiction is trying to build a bridge between love and squalor.
• Holden realizes that his phoniness is wrong.
• Holden lies to get along, but not to hurt.
• At the end of the book Holden has an undiscriminating love for all humanity.
• Holden become “Christ-like.”

“J.D. Salinger.” MagillonAuthors. 1997. Identities and Issues in Literature. 5 Oct. 2004 <http://0-search.epnet.com.lrc.cod.edu>.

• Salinger became a cult hero after writing CITR.
• Characters in Salinger’s short stories are in search of spiritual answers.
• Holden in rebellion of hypocritical adult-world.
• Salinger renounced the world his works question (he is secluded kind of like Holden).

“Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.” Literature Online. 2003. The Explicator. 5 Oct. 2004. <http://0-lion.chadwyck.com.lrc.cod.edu>.

• Phoebe is the ideal of innocence and honesty. Holden goes to her before confronting his future.
• “Catcher in the Rye” is a revelation that will be the seed of his final acceptance of the universal and inevitable loss childhood innocence.

Roth, Philip. “Salinger, J(erome) D(avid) 1919-.” CLC. Vol. 8. Detroit: Gale, 1978. 464.

• Salinger understands/pinpoints current struggles between self and culture.
• Salinger’s characters tend to commit suicide or end up in sanitariums.
• Only device Salinger gives to readers is to be charming on your way to the loony bin.
• Holden wants Phoebe to stay a child because he doesn’t like the drastic differences between childhood and adulthood.