R.I.P. J.D.

'What really knocks me out,' Holden Caulfield tells us in The Catcher in the Rye, 'is a book, when you're all done reading it, you wished the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.'

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Holden is unable to cry out for help, yet his readers champion him. Does that mean that we, too, are struggling to call out for help? Perhaps that's the very question Salinger poses.