Holden Caulfield

Description of the character

Holden Caulfield is one of the most outstanding characters of the literature of the 20th century.

In the Catch-Hearts , Caulfield is 17 years old. He reports events which have occurred in the previous months, whereas he was 16 years old. He flees of the secondary school which he attends, a few days before Christmas, and wanders in the town of New York.

The character also appears under the name Holden Morrisey Caulfield in a news of Salinger entitled Slight Rebellion off Madison , published by The New Yorker the December 22nd 1946.

Popular culture

In the popular culture, one on television counts several references to Holden Caulfield, the cinema, and in the music.

a song entitled Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? (“Which wrote Holden Caulfield? ”) on the album Kerplunk (1992) of the group American Punk Green Day is found. The singer of the group, Billie Joe Armstrong, quoted already The Catcher in the Rye as his preferred book, and estimates that Holden Caulfield was punk before the word even does not exist.
the group Screeching Weasel also endisqué a part entitled I Wrote Holden Caulfield .
In 2001, the American group The Ataris used the last words pronounced by Holden to conclude their part If You Want To Hear About It . The title even of the part is precisely made up of the first words of the novel of Salinger.
a group French of music Pop rock'n'roll is entitled Holden
There was an alternative group in the United States, in the years 1990, which was called The Caulfields.
the group of jazz manouche Djivilli Quartet composed a song entitled " Letter with Holden Caulfield"

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