Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Death of Salinger
By Choi Yearn-hong
When I was a young college student at Yonsei University in the 1960s, I read J.D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” with great curiosity, because it was a sensational adolescent novel. It was the story of an American teenage boy, Holden Caulfield, after he was expelled from his boarding school, Pencey Prep school.
Over three days in New York City, he had the run of weird encounters with taxi drivers, nuns, an elevator operator, three girls from Seattle, a prostitute and a former teacher.
In his eyes, the world was controlled and dominated by “phonies,” and he struggled with limited success to come to terms with love, sex and ultimately himself.
The story of one young man’s view of New York City and its citizens instantly became a classic novel. I could see a portrait of a New York young man wondering about the world. The novel did depict a young man’s empathy.
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