>notes from the underground: the teenage years

>>9722487
>young man wanders aimlessly in a cold city, chats up with whores, wonders about his role in a social model he doesn't fit and goes on loud autistic rants in front of normies
Yep. Sounds about right

i'm 25 and i still relate to Holden Caulfield. always hear about how the point of the book is that Holden is wrong but i don't see how

>>9722789
I think it's about how his reffusal to fit into a society he sees as full of phonies is the main cause of his own suffering, but I don't really see how you'd really classify that as "wrong"

>>9722806
Being an uncompromising autist is seen as being wrong by most people

>>9723517
>autism
>being told by "psychology" who and what you are

Fuck that shit

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>>9722789
Holden isn't "wrong", but he is his own worst enemy. Salinger was very much into vedantism and meditating and shit and you can see how Holden, and his inner monologue, is essentially the disease that those kind of practices tries to cure. It's Salingers genius to see in that kind young but yet very sick mind an opportunity/vehicle to deliver a sharp but very accurate critique on post war America in particular and human nature in general.

Sage.