Why A Hayden Listener Carruth

I absolutely hated this book. There is no plot. At all. I’ve heard it’s supposed to be a great coming-of-age story, but to me, it didn’t seem like the main character changed at all. Holden Caulfield remains annoying, whiny, and obsessed with cussing and the word “phony”. If I hadn’t been graded on reading it, I wouldn’t have even read past the first few pages. Personally, I can’t understand how this book ever got to be a classic.

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