Is the Catcher in the Rye the definitive novel for describing teenage angst?

I think if used to be. It was the first successful book to portray teenagers as they really are -- not miniature adults, but individuals struggling with leaving behind the innocence of childhood and not ready to fully take on the responsibilities of adulthood.





In the last fifteen or twenty years, though, there has been an explosion of YA (young adult) books that do this also, and many just as well. ME Kerr, Chris Crutcher, Edward Bloor, Katherine Paterson, Nancy Garden, Walter Dean Myers, the list goes on.





I think the most interesting thing about CITR is that people always seem to miss or forget the cause of Holden's torment. His little brother died. He is not just a whiner who doesn't want to grow up, he is grieving. Just my two cents.Is the Catcher in the Rye the definitive novel for describing teenage angst?
Yes.Is the Catcher in the Rye the definitive novel for describing teenage angst?
yes, because salinger is the only talented writer in american lit to have a main teenage character...
Guess it is, I can't remember any other. I have heard that every serial killer in USA had that book!
definitive means whatever for you I doN't get .The aNswer is no.
I always thought it was overrated. I prefer The Outsiders
try _a_separate_peace_ by john knowles
It's ranks up there.


For young girls there's also ';Hello God, It's Me, Margaret';