Insight Text Guides – The Catcher in the Rye is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive study guide to J.D. Salinger's novel contains detailed character and chapter analysis and explores genre, structure, themes and language. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.
About the writer: Scott Hurley, BA (SUNY Albany), MA (CU Boulder), PhD (CUNY), has taught Literature and Composition in the US, (CUNY). His areas of specialty are the 20th Century novel, American Literature, Irish Literature and Modernism.