We’ve all learned that youthful angst and juvenile rebelliousness are nothing new. Each generation has its share of adolescent cynics and post-pubescent radicals. Although Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, appears to be just another angry kid, unhappy with his lot in life and everything around him, he’s much more. Caulfield is a teenage everyman, who is unwilling to accept the status quo and who passionately rages (both internally and externally) about anything he believes to be unfair or damaging to the innocent things of this world.