Holden Caulfield is the main character in which 1951 novel?
Holden Caulfield Holden Caulfield Holden Caulfield is a fictional character in author J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye". Since the book's publication, Holden has become an icon for teenage rebellion and angst, and now stands among the most important characters of 20th-century American literature. The name Holden Caulfield was used in an unpublished short story written in 1942 and first appeared in print in 1945. Although it has been conjectured that J. D. Salinger got the name for Holden Caulfield in "The Catcher in the Rye" when he saw a marquee for the 1947 film "Dear Ruth", starring
Holden Caulfield William Holden and Joan Caulfield, Salinger's first Holden Caulfield story, "I'm Crazy," appeared in "Collier's" on December 22, 1945, a year and a half before this movie was released. Holden is naive and at the same time resentful of the adult world. One of Holden's most striking and quintessential qualities is his powerful revulsion for "phony" qualities, a catch-all term for the perceived hypocrisy that irritates Holden. It is this cynicism that causes him to distance himself from other people, despite wanting connection as well. Holden is very much a character of contradiction; at seventeen years of age he is