"The Catcher In The Rye" is a study of ones human condition. Holden Caulfield is a teenager struggling to reach maturity. He is growing up in New York and goes through a lot of difficulties a teenager goes through in his teenage life like drinking, smoking, depression and family problems. The problems he has is relevant to New Zealand teenagers of today because a lot of teenagers in New Zealand are heavy drinkers, heavy smokers, …showed first 75 words of 631 total…

…showed last 75 words of 631 total…problems, they don't communicate with their parents much and when the teenager turns out to be bad like he smokes, drinks, depressed, the cases are usually that they have family problems and don't really communicate with their parents. Therefor the drinking, smoking, depression and family problems Holden has is relevant to New Zealand teenagers, finally New Zealand teenagers of our society are just as bad and have the same problems as what Holden had then.