75" W x 1" D x 8. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story.1" H ; There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all.
However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.