Talk:The Catcher in the Rye

Poor grammer and punctuation

This article feels like it was written by a teenager. There is incorrect and excessive use of commas throughout and the writing style is immature and does not flow. 2604:3D08:1B84:A900:1D26:C652:2F9F:DDBD (talk) 07:41, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

@2604:3D08:1B84:A900:1D26:C652:2F9F:DDBD Yes do agree. The plot section of the article is like a paraphrased version of the book or a summary of contents. Elontrump (talk) 21:06, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

Indeed. Sentences such as "Each Caulfield child has literary talent" don't even mean anything. The whole thing reads like a high school composition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.3.240.31 (talk) 21:49, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

John Cusack

Did John Cusack really say he felt he was too old to play Holden Caulfield in a movie version of Catcher in the Rye when he turned 21? Lots of 21-year-old actors can and do play 17-year-olds. It’s not much of an age gap.Bjohns81 (talk) 18:23, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

It's a huge age gap. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.3.240.31 (talk) 21:48, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Peter G Beidler

Peter G Beidler's 'A Reader's Companion to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye' should very much be link to this article2601:602:A080:1F30:1CE9:C0B3:463A:14B5 (talk) 22:57, 19 March 2022 (UTC)

The plot section is too long

@Billyshiverstick: Billy, I have restored the {{Long plot}} tag that you removed.

The plot summary section of the article is far too long at 1,136 words, greatly in excess of the 400 to 700 words recommended by the MOS:PLOTLENGTH and WP:NOVELPLOT policies. Plot summaries are precisely that – summaries of limited length for the convenience of the reader. Summaries of excessive length burden the reader looking for the gist of the book.

Dragging Taylor Swift into it in your edit summary is irrelevant (even assuming for the benefit of the doubt that there really are longer "plot" summaries of her songs at Wikipedia – I won't waste my time checking your claim). Songs don't have "plots" but if descriptions of her songs truly exceed 1,136 words, as you claim, then you have the option of trimming them.

Please do not remove the tag from the article again as this is an inarguable example of Wikipedia policy being ignored. It is why the {{Long plot}} template was created. Spideog (talk) 17:53, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Wikipedia 'policy' is ignored in a large percentage of non-science entries. For example, there is political bias (to put it mildly) in almost all Middle East entries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.3.240.31 (talk) 21:52, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Holden Caulfield as a mentally disabled man.

I don't get how you can't see it. He is banned from talking about his family, because he keeps calling D.B. (apparently a producer) a prostitute. He also confuses other words, such as throw instead of blow, cancer instead of canker. Nobody else in the book has any particular problem in life, living a happy life of an upper class New York society. All his observations are either irrelevant, inane, or outright wrong. He doesn't seem to understand time, or its units. He does bizarre stuff, such as getting lost in the subway, or throwing his money in the "lagoon". 88.100.190.182 (talk) 16:24, 17 August 2024 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:1028:9192:FADA:E840:7653:5949:B8DC (talk)

This sounds like WP:OR (maybe more specifically WP:SYNTH), which is not allowed on Wikipedia. This talk-page is only for discussing improvements of the article, not for discussion of the article's topic in other ways (see WP:NOTFORUM). The only allowed basis for article content is to cite a reliable source. DMacks (talk) 09:49, 18 August 2024 (UTC)