Was it rape? Had he really been abused before or was he

He was raped by Salinger himself.

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>>9766575
He never actually said he was raped before so I don't see how he could be considered oversensitive either way.

>>9766575
I think rape is a bit of a cop out, though very maybe. He's described as being attractive all throughout, and receiving a lot of unwanted attention from older people (men) so, if not rape, certainly a lot of leering, a lot of being placed in uncomfortable situations. Possibly molestation. Probably rape, who fucking knows, fuck fuck penis in boothole

it was the 50s of course he got beat

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>>9767642
He mentions when he is freaking out over Mr. Antolinis pic related that "stuff like this has happened before" or something like that.
I doubt that what he is referring to is the exact type of head patting.

>>9767852
"Thanks a lot," I said. "G'by!" The elevator was finally there. I got in and went down. Boy, I was shaking like a madman. I was sweating, too. When something perverty like that happens, I start sweating like a bastard. That kind of stuff's happened to me about twenty times since I was a kid. I can't stand it."

The exact quote in question.

>>9767852
>>9767864
Like I said, he never actually said he was raped before. I just read the book a week ago, and he never makes another allusion like that.

What is it with bookfags that they always need some edgy twist? Can't you just accept it's a book about a troubled boy wandering New York?

His mental well-being is noticeably damaged after said incident and the book ends with him in a mental institute. I don't see why it would be so wrong to read into these kind of things.
Why do you non-"bookfags" browse the literature imageboard and complain when people are discussing literature?

>>9768212
He's mentally disturbed the whole book through. Noticeably often by sexual stuff.