My thoughts on the Catcher in the Rye

Overall, I found this novel to be short, and pointless. I have read this novel before and I remember liking it a lot more then. I could not find a true plot within this book because there was no true suspense, climax or any other key component of a plot. Throughout the novel, I felt like Holden was leaving important things out, and I wish there was more background on him. I wish I knew why he was so cynical, and full of negative things to say about people. I wonder what his life growing up was like, and why he seems like he is suicidal. If I ever met a person like Holden, I would not befriend him. He is too negative, and he ALWAYS finds something to say about everything. He would annoy me to no end, and I got very annoyed with his character while reading this book. I liked some parts of this story, and I found few quite hilarious. I enjoyed reading about Holden's mishap with the elevator man and the prostitute. Holden not wanting to grow up reminded me of Peter Pan. The ending of this novel was very weird, and it seemed out of no where. I would have liked to have a continuation of what happened after Holden returned back to school, and if he kept up his hopes for having motivation. I would've liked to have known why Holden was constantly on the verge of a mental breakdown. The ending felt like it cut into the middle of the start of a plot, and I did not like how we had to kind of guess where Holden ended up, and how he finished school off.