Still no screen tests for Holden Caulfield It was described as a sequel that picked up the story of "Rye" protagonist Holden Caulfield 60 years later in a rest home, where he reflected on his life. ... Austin News, Local News, Breaking News, Weather - National News His anti-hero, Holden Caulfield, struck a chord with young people -- as did the book's message of an unfair struggle between the goodness of young people ... Another Writer Guy Dead. But Where's Octomom? impossibly godlike characteristics to any basement bound consumo-nerd that a far more potent avatar would be found in the person of Holden Caulfield? Sorry to be a snob (and nowhere near as well-read as my outrage would presume) but I get the feeling that our culture has become mechanized, nothing more than a virtual conveyor belt of impersonal data to be absorbed like a sublingual melatonin and then flushed from the system to make room for more bits and bytes. When Marlon Brando died, I was fairly appalled at the cursory attention paid this cultural icon. Unique, provocative and confounding, Brando managed, in the space of really a small body of work, to alter modern culture... An Influential Voice, Even In 'Silence' The same can be said, for contemporary writers, of Holden Caulfield, the narrator of JD Salinger's The Catcher In the Rye. It's impossible to be an American ... J.D. Salinger, Dead at 91 Besides Holden Caulfield, the central character in "Catcher," Salinger often wrote about a family of highly intelligent siblings, the Glass family. The Globe and Mail Is there anyone who didn't find a kindred spirit in Holden Caulfield as they negotiated the minefields of adolescence? “'Life is a game, boy. ... A word-perfect definition of idiocy Mind you, it wasn't Holden Caulfield's adolescent brooding they were after, nor Philip Pullman's coded attack on Christian values. ... University of New Hampshire Professor Available to Discuss Salinger’s Death, Literary Legacy But Salinger was greater than just about everyone in what he captured on the page with Holden Caulfield, who stood and stands always for all sensitive souls ...