Catcher In The Rye: Holden A Victim of Society The controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye, first appeared in 1951. Jerome David Salinger created a literary masterpiece by fabricating the adolescent Holden Caulfield into a victim of society. This modernistic category of hero delights nearly all modern English literature supporters. Holden Caulfield explains to his psychoanalyst a four-day flashback in the manner a of a "confession" throughout The Catcher in the Rye. The narrative commences as Holden fails another private school and prepares to leave Pencey Prep. The mission of informing his parents about the blunder in studies brings psychologi