Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caufield

Happy endings offered throughout novels are results of spiritual reassessments or moreal reconciliation of specific characters. Considered as a more relaxed novel, Catcher in the Rye catches the spirit of the reader with its moral reconcilliation, defining the book's meaning as a whole. Holden Caufield serves as the protagonist in the novel by J.D.Salinger, Catcher in the Rye. Holden trudges through the book lonely, making assumptions of everyone's characters. Every character in this …showed first 75 words of 431 total…

…showed last 75 words of 431 total…that truly mean something to Holden, and when he sees that he has let her down, the climax is hit in the novel; Holden decides to say home. Phoebe is Holden's crutch, and provides him with the realization that he can't be the catcher in the rye to society. This moral reconciliation, leading to a happy ending, allows Salinger to receive a lasting response from his readers; and his readers a lasting image from Holden.