Like anyone, The Catcher in the Rye had a hold on me in my youth. But at the end of the day, Holden Caulfield is your average Williamsburg hipster in a nouveau-rock art fusion no-bass-included Japanese haiku band; Holden we're fairly certain will simply end up at another private school for fellow rich kids, and in a few years he will look back on his melo-dramatic teen years and laugh. XMASTIME
In other words, he would become Pete Campbell.
The Gen X version of course is when you're 19 you watch Reality Bites and think Winona Ryder should be with Ethan Hawke, and as you get older you realize there's no way she should be with that space moron and she should sprint into Ben Stiller's corporate sellout arms.
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