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What does Phoebe Holden Caulfield represent?

Janet Phillips on the iconic little sister in J.D. Salinger’s seminal coming-of-age tale Maybe every sixteen-year-old boy needs a smart sister like Phoebe Caulfield. Wise film critic, reader, writer of detective stories, skater and mean dancer, she is a very accomplished ten-year-old girl and the only character The Catcher in the Rye Who seems to

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‘I thought Holden was talking to me alone’: The Catcher in the Rye 75 | jd salinger

IIn 1981, when I was 17, my first girlfriend gave me a paperback of her father’s favorite novel. I had never heard of it, despite living in a house full of books. My parents liked the work of Edna O’Brien, Muriel Spark, John le Carré, Dickens. I also did the same. But the world became

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