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This article feels like it was written by a teenager. There is incorrect and excessive use of commas throughout and the writing style is immature and does not flow. 2604:3D08:1B84:A900:1D26:C652:2F9F:DDBD (talk) 07:41, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
Did John Cusack really say he felt he was too old to play Holden Caulfield in a movie version of Catcher in the Rye when he turned 21? Lots of 21-year-old actors can and do play 17-year-olds. It’s not much of an age gap.Bjohns81 (talk) 18:23, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
Peter G Beidler's 'A Reader's Companion to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye' should very much be link to this article2601:602:A080:1F30:1CE9:C0B3:463A:14B5 (talk) 22:57, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
@Billyshiverstick: Billy, I have restored the ((Long plot)) tag that you removed.
The plot summary section of the article is far too long at 1,136 words, greatly in excess of the 400 to 700 words recommended by the MOS:PLOTLENGTH and WP:NOVELPLOT policies. Plot summaries are precisely that – summaries of limited length for the convenience of the reader. Summaries of excessive length burden the reader looking for the gist of the book.
Dragging Taylor Swift into it in your edit summary is irrelevant (even assuming for the benefit of the doubt that there really are longer "plot" summaries of her songs at Wikipedia – I won't waste my time checking your claim). Songs don't have "plots" but if descriptions of her songs truly exceed 1,136 words, as you claim, then you have the option of trimming them.
Please do not remove the tag from the article again as this is an inarguable example of Wikipedia policy being ignored. It is why the ((Long plot)) template was created. Spideog (talk) 17:53, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
I don't get how you can't see it. He is banned from talking about his family, because he keeps calling D.B. (apparently a producer) a prostitute. He also confuses other words, such as throw instead of blow, cancer instead of canker. Nobody else in the book has any particular problem in life, living a happy life of an upper class New York society. All his observations are either irrelevant, inane, or outright wrong. He doesn't seem to understand time, or its units. He does bizarre stuff, such as getting lost in the subway, or throwing his money in the "lagoon". 88.100.190.182 (talk) 16:24, 17 August 2024 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:1028:9192:FADA:E840:7653:5949:B8DC (talk)