The Catcher in the Rye - Photo Tour, etc.
Photo Tour
Criticism and References
J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield, Aging Gracelessly
Index to The Catcher in the Rye
Jason Alexander reads from Catcher in the Rye
A History of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye
Holden Caulfield - American Whiner by George Will
Catcher in the Rye Study Questions
"Comin Thro' the Rye"
By Robert Burns
Chorus
O, Jenny's a' weet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry:
She draigl't a' her petticoatie,
Comin thro' the rye!
I
Comin thro' the rye, poor body,
Comin thro' the rye,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie,
Comin thro' the rye!
II
Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?
III
Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the glen,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need the warld ken?
Chorus
O, Jenny's a' weet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry:
She draigl't a' her petticoatie,
Comin thro' the rye!
Featured Author: J. D. Salinger
From the New York Times Archives
The New York Review of Books: Justice to J.D. Salinger
NYTimes review of Catcher in the Rye
The New York Times Literary Map of Manhattan
The Catcher in the Rye: Chronology
Reflections on Catcher in the Rye by William Faulkner:
Salinger's Catcher in the Rye... expresses so completely what I have tried to say: a youth, father to what will, must someday be a man, more intelligent than some and more sensitive than most, who (he would not even have called it by instinct because he did not know he possessed it) because God perhaps had put it there, loved man and wished to be a part of mankind, humanity, who tried to join the human race and failed. To me, his tragedy was not that he was, as he perhaps thought, not tough enough or brave enough or deserving enough to be accepted into humanity. His tragedy was that when he attempted to enter the human race, there was no human race there.