This guide to Salinger's provocative novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The Catcher in the Rye; a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present; a selection of new critical essays on the The Catcher in the Rye, by Sally Robinson, Renee R. Curry, Denis Jonnes, Livia Hekanaho and Clive Baldwin, providing a range of perspectives on the novel and extending the coverage of key critical approaches identified in the su...