THE CATCHER IN THE RYE—A GENERATIONAL DIFFERENCE? (COMMENT).

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE—A GENERATIONAL 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, frustrating, and pointless.” Dick comments that “Nick’s reaction is typical for his generation.” Dick is right that young people today do not react the same way to Holden Caulfield as our generation did. I posted here on the way that the Peanuts comic was enormously popular in our generation, and yet Annalisa and Nick disliked it. As I said there: “[Annalisa and Nick] couldn’t stand the patient suffering of Charlie Brown. Why did he put up with things?” I just asked Annalisa about THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. She said that she disliked it because Holden Caulfield was “too passive and complaining.”