are you a Catcher in the Rye?

yes. i was an angst-ridden teen who wrote essays, poems & whatnot in the same tone as that book's by J.D. Salinger. i also listened to music that conveys frustration, pain, being misunderstood... i was also stubborn to the point of being obstinate.

as i grew older, i mellowed down but my stubborn, independent, rebellious self is just too hard to completely shed....

i think there will always be that side of me that has a penchant for not really breaking the rules but bending them to suit me... a side that from time to time rebels over authority and refuses to back down when i know that my point is worth fighting for... i know because i am a nonconformist.

‘Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.’
— Cecil Beaton

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let me just clarify though that i have never smoked, i rarely drink and i don't engage in PMS... and yeah, i curse but only mildly because i have never undergone what holden went through. :) i meant my thoughts (can be radical), are that of a nonconformist.

2007-11-16 19:13:33 · answer #1 · answered by kahlan nynaeve® 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋

As I review my life, I think I haven't had a chance to be a catcher in the rye. But I'd like to think that I may have been in one way or another and that I just wasn't aware of it. And for the future, I'd like to become one.

2007-11-16 23:04:33 · answer #2 · answered by allsmiles 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋

Yours truly is certainly not controversial to this day, for either a liberal use of profanity, or publicly discussing sexuality and teenage angst !
As such, I can hardly qualify to be rated on par with young Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of J. D. Salinger's 1951 novel 'The Catcher in the Rye' ["the most banned book in United States as well as the second most taught book in public schools"] !
:-))

2007-11-17 00:20:15 · answer #3 · answered by Panda007 4 · 7⤊ 0⤋

No, I'm a Walter Mitty or a Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

2007-11-20 15:09:16 · answer #4 · answered by sweetwater 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋

Sorry, I miss reading that book so your question leaves a blank space in my mind.

2007-11-16 21:54:33 · answer #5 · answered by annabelle p 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋

I think I was Holden's female counterpart during my high school days.

2007-11-22 05:07:52 · answer #6 · answered by shirley g 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋

yes...and by the way..i love that book

2007-11-16 20:36:22 · answer #7 · answered by hseniel 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋

yes i am here to protect all the children lol

2007-11-16 18:38:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋

hahah, a Holden, no.

I also love that book =)

2007-11-16 18:58:08 · answer #9 · answered by battgirl 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋

hey!!! I was just reading that book!!!

2007-11-17 08:55:49 · answer #10 · answered by Juan C 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋

are you a Catcher in the Rye?

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