Then Hel asked what this Holden’s father was like, so I told her if she wanted to know the truth Holden didn’t want to go into all that David Copperfield-kind of business. It bored him and anyway his “parents would have [had] about two hemorrhages apiece if [he] told anything personal about them.” You see, this Holden, I said, he just can’t find anybody decent in the lousy world and he’s in some sort of crumby Californian home full of psychiatrists.
— Aw, the World’s a Crumby Place, the 1951 NY Times review of Catcher in the Rye
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