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"The Catcher in the Rye" is a novel written by Jerome David Salinger, an American writer born in 1919 in New York. The novel narrates the story of a 16 years old boy named Holden Caulfield, who's desperately seeking to find who he really is, and his purpose in life. More than just a story about an unusual boy struggling with his teenage problems, the novel is a deep study of Holden's reactions and emotions. Throughout the …

…parents. The end of the story, as I said before, is when Holden Caulfield is narrating his story to his psychoanalyst. He seems to be recovering from his traumas and apparent mental disease. The ironic part of the end, I believe, is that he is telling the story to the doctor when he actually didn't like to talk to people about his problems and thought they were all "phonies", as he used to call people.