Why do assassins always have a copy of the book, “Catcher in the Rye”?
While I’m not an expert on assassins, I have read the book several times and teach college literature, so here’s my best guess. Salinger himself has been and still is a recluse, so there’s possibly a similar lifestyle that assassins have. Holden, the main character, is an outcast who feels torn between childhood and adulthood, and on multiple occasions, he thinks about his younger sister and feels a need to preserve her (and all children’s) innocence. If you were an assassin or terrorist who believe you were exacting justice through your actions, you might also be attempting to fight off whoever represented a threat to what you held dear – so, instead of reality threatening innocence, maybe the government threatening your freedom, or maybe a corporation poisoning the water supply that infected your spouse and children with cancer and killed them. Holden does end up in an asylum. As a reader, I never truly felt he was too crazy to tell a coherent story. I always felt that he simply neve
