The Catcher in the Rye Book Essay

First of all, The Catcher in the Rye is a "deep" book, and is set in the New York/Pennsylvania area during either 1948 or 1949. By "deep", I mean that the book deals more with the psychological, and requires pretty heavy thinking to understand. I myself don't believe that i fully understand some of the book, but for the most part, I do. The storyline of the book is, when taken by itself alone, actually kind …

…but was adequate as it was. The psychological part of the book made up for the lacking plot, however. In the end, I wouldn't reccommend this book to anyone not in high school, because sometimes I had a hard time looking behind the physical story and seeing the writer's underlying statements, which probably some of which I didn't see anyway. But still, it was a good book, and will continue to be in the future.