Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-171) and index
Introduction / Harold BloomYoung men in rebellion / William T. Noon -- The voice of the lonesome : alienation from Huck Finn to Holden Caulfield / Levi A. Olan -- The psychological structure of The catcher in the rye / James Bryan -- The artist as a very nervous young man / Warren French -- Hemingway's The last good country and The catcher in the rye : more than a family resemblance / Sandra Whipple Spanier -- In memoriam : Allie Caulfield in The catcher in the rye / Edwin Haviland Miller -- Holden Caulfield, c?est moi / Mary Suzanne Schriber -- Flunking everything else except English anyway : Holden Caulfield, author / A. Robert Lee -- Holden Caulfield and American protest / Joyce Rowe -- Inventing Holden Caulfield / Paul Alexander / Anna Freud and J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield / Robert Coles -- Memories of Holden Caulfield and of Miss Greenwood -- Carl Freedman.