The Catcher in the Rye is about a man named Holden Caulfield, who is narrating the story. Holden is in a psychiatric hospital in California, where at the given moment he was spending his time. He then had a flashback of when he was a young man at the age of sixteen. The story starts off at Pencey Prep, Holden's present school at which he was flunking out of. Holden had only a few more …showed first 75 words of 1377 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1377 total…for he wanted so much to spend time with her. Finally he had put her on a carousel and sat down in the rain and started to cry out of disappointment/frustration/anger/joy whichever, because he was just a confused little boy. The story ended with Holden back in the institution being disrespectful to people again as was before and still being in being in the same state of mind that it started with.