In the pre-Beatlemania world of America’s 1950’s, JD Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, wasn’t the most popular book on the shelf. In many communities it was (and in some cases still is) looked down on to the point of actually being banned. It wasn’t until after Salinger’s down fall, in the early 1960’s, that Catcher in the Rye started to gain its current popularity. At this time, a …showed first 75 words of 552 total…

…showed last 75 words of 552 total…with her two friends. And when Holden takes Sally on a date it was a classic choice of a movie or a play. How much more 50’s can you get? Holden might not have been a common culture idol until a decade after the book was released but everything else seemed dead on. Of course, you really wouldn’t expect the image a reader gets out of the book to be of today’s world.