Holden Caulfield is a compassionate yet confused young adult struggling to accept the fact that life is change. His personal narrative in The Catcher In The Rye describes three days of turmoil and discovery that eventually lead to his hospitalization in a mental institution in California. As he r...

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There have been thousands of writers in America but only a choice few were gifted enough to have been immortalized over time. ... On the other hand, most literary critics "praised the work (http://door.library.uiuc.edu 1)." ...

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While Adrienne Rich, an obviously gifted and passionate writer, raises a number of compellingly valid and accurate points concerning the plight of the feminist writer and the injustices suffered at the hands of a male-dominated society, I believe she overshoots her mark. ...

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