Comments on: HOW SALINGER AND HEMINGWAY ARE ELITISTS.

By: HOLDEN CAULFIELD RECONSIDERED. | Pater Familias

HOLDEN CAULFIELD RECONSIDERED. | Pater Familias — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:09:27 +0000

[...] days as merely whiney.” We had a discussion about the book last summer on this blog (see here, here, and here). Annalisa and Nick certainly would agree that Holden Caulfield is whiney and that [...]

By: NOVELISTS AS SNOBS. | Pater Familias

NOVELISTS AS SNOBS. | Pater Familias — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:47:36 +0000

[...] AS SNOBS. Hemingway and Salinger had a tendency to rate people. I posted here on Mary McCarthy’s observation that Salinger and Hemingway divided the world into allies and [...]

By: THE CATCHER IN THE RYE—A GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCE? (COMMENT). | Pater Familias

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:59:08 +0000

[...] DIFFERENCE? (COMMENT). Nick and Dick Weisfelder have been commenting on THE CATCHER IN THE RYE here. Nick commented that even at the age of 14, he found the book “juvenile, unrealistic, [...]

By: Dick Weisfelder

Dick Weisfelder — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:58:57 +0000

Nick’s reaction is typical for his generation. It reflects how different the opportunities and experiences of young people are today from those of the 40s and 50s when Philip and I were growing up. But I must admit that the book already seemed unrealistic to me when I read it in the mid-fifties.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 07:48:34 +0000

Whenever the topic comes up, I point out that I don’t think CATCHER IN THE RYE is that good. They respond, “You should have read that in your adolescence.” But I read it when I was 14 and even then it seemed juvenile, unrealistic, frustrating, and pointless.