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67-633: Toews had a leading role in the feature film Silent Light , written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas , and winner of the 2007 Cannes Jury Prize , an experience that informed her fifth novel, Irma Voth (2011). Toews lives in Toronto and is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Arts & Science . Toews grew up in Steinbach , Manitoba , Canada

134-420: A Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of King's College , Halifax . Toews wrote her first novel, Summer of My Amazing Luck (1996), while working as a freelance journalist. The novel explores the evolving friendship of two single mothers in a Winnipeg public housing complex. The novel was developed from a documentary that Toews was preparing for CBC Radio on the subject of welfare mothers. It

201-751: A Mennonite colony close to Cuauhtémoc , Chihuahua State , Northern Mexico , Silent Light tells the story of a Mennonite married man who falls in love with another woman, threatening his place in the conservative community. The dialogue is in Plautdietsch , the Low German dialect of the Mennonites. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 80th Academy Awards , but it did not make

268-446: A Mennonite teenager named Irma, whose isolated existence is transformed when she is hired by a bohemian film crew that comes to her settlement to make a film about Mennonites. Toews was inspired by her own experience on the set of Silent Light , in which she plays the role of Esther, Johan's wife. The "film-within-the-novel" is recognizably Silent Light. According to critic Catherine E. Wall, Toews' novel provides additional insight into

335-556: A Wall?" was accepted for publication by The New Yorker in October 1941, but was not published then because editors found the tone to be too desolate for its readership. An edited version of this short story later became the basis of several chapters in the middle-late section of The Catcher in the Rye dealing with Caulfield's date with Sally Hayes, during which he confesses his desire to run away with her, meets Carl Luce for drinks, and makes

402-500: A character named Holden Caulfield do not share a cohesive timeline, and details about "Holden Caulfield" and his family are often inconsistent or completely contradictory from one story to another. Most notably, in some Salinger short stories "Holden Caulfield" is a soldier in World War II who was missing in action in 1944—something that is thoroughly impossible to have happened to the 16-year-old Holden Caulfield of The Catcher in

469-542: A drunken phone call to the Hayes' home. Unlike the similar sequence in the novel, Caulfield is on a Christmas break from school, and, in the story, the interlude with Sally is split into two occurrences. Also, the meeting with Carl Luce is considerably briefer in the story than in the novel. Caulfield also figures as a character in the short story " I'm Crazy ", published in Collier's (December 22, 1945), and other members of

536-426: A focus on a large farm family, a protagonist questioning the strict piety of his minister father, the death of the protagonist's wife in seeming relation to her husband's transgression and, most saliently, the wife's apparent resurrection from the dead as brought about by a kiss. It is not a strict remake of Ordet, however, as there are numerous and substantive differences in plot. Also, Reygadas' film does not include

603-445: A football game below, and develops as Holden visits with his history teacher, Mr. Spencer, for a talk about his expulsion from school and his future. Several other details match those found in the first chapter of Catcher , including a reference to the mother of one of Caulfield's schoolmates and to his own mother sending him a gift of ice skates, but the story ends with his returning home instead of running away from school. Once home, he

670-598: A hospital in California in a cynical and jaded language. Several early pieces featuring Holden Caulfield formed the basis of parts of Catcher in the Rye , but were rewritten for the novel. The character, as Holden Caulfield, appears in Salinger's " Slight Rebellion off Madison ", published in the December 21, 1946, issue of The New Yorker . An earlier version of this story, titled "Are You Banging Your Head Against

737-529: A language neither the director nor Toews fully understood. Toews worked with her mother, a native speaker of Plautdietsch, to deliver her lines phonetically. The film won a number of international awards, including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival . Toews was nominated for Best Actress at Mexico's Ariel Awards for her performance, one of nine nominations for the film. Filmed in

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804-544: A mention of Holden missing in action during the war. "Last Day of the Last Furlough" relates the final day of Babe Gladwaller before he leaves to fight in World War II . Gladwaller spends part of the day with his little sister before Vincent Caulfield arrives. At that point Vincent is a fellow soldier about to leave for the war. Vincent announces that his brother, Holden, has been declared missing in action. There

871-474: A neighbouring farm by her strict, religious father after secretly marrying a non-Mennonite Mexican. Her new husband disappears into the drug trade and Irma is left alone to tend to the farm. Her world is transformed when a filmmaker from Mexico City arrives to make a film about Mennonites. Irma is hired as a translator for the film's female protagonist, and her involvement with the wildly creative film crew brings her into dangerous conflict with her father, while at

938-750: A teenager, Toews rode horses and took part in provincial dressage and barrel-racing competitions and attended high school at the Steinbach Regional Secondary School . In 2024, a historic plaque was placed in front of Toews's teenage home in Steinbach. Toews left Steinbach at eighteen, living in Montreal and London before settling in Winnipeg . She has a B.A. in Film Studies from the University of Manitoba , and

1005-510: Is Erik Rutherford , the screenwriter for the 2021 film Charlotte . Her daughter, Georgia Toews , and son, Owen Toews, are both writers. Georgia's debut nove,l Hey, Good Luck Out There, was published in 2022, while Owen's Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg was published in 2019. Silent Light Silent Light ( Plautdietsch : Stellet Licht ) is a 2007 film written and directed by Carlos Reygadas . Filmed in

1072-493: Is Elfrieda who suffers from acute depression and a desire to die, much like her father before her, who killed himself by stepping in front of a train. When Elfrieda makes a second suicide attempt on the eve of an international concert tour, Yolandi makes it her mission to save her sister, even as Elf begs her to accompany her to a Swiss clinic and enable her death. Yolandi writes: "She wanted to die and I wanted her to live and we were enemies who loved each other." Toews has said that

1139-551: Is alone, he stops the clock on the wall and breaks down crying. Johan goes to work and discusses with a colleague that he is having an affair with a single woman by the name of Marianne; he makes it clear that his wife knows about the affair. Johan leaves work to meet Marianne in a field, and they begin to kiss. In the next scene, Johan's children are bathing and playing along a riverbank while he and his wife watch. They call one of their children over to bathe her, and as they are doing so, Esther begins to cry. Johan tells his father about

1206-535: Is knocked out by a wave. Holden, just home from camp, is waiting on the porch with his suitcases as Vincent comes back with Kenneth's unconscious body. Kenneth dies later the same night. The story was reportedly sold to a magazine, only to be taken back by Salinger before publication. Another short story of note with relationship to Caulfield is "The Boy in the People Shooting Hat", which was submitted to The New Yorker sometime between 1948 and 1949 but

1273-481: Is most famous for his appearance as the lead character and narrator of the 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye . Since the book's publication, Holden has become an icon for teenage rebellion and angst , and is considered among the most important characters of 20th-century American literature. The name Holden Caulfield was initially used in an unpublished short story written in 1941 and first appeared in print in 1945. Salinger's various stories (and one novel) featuring

1340-461: Is not shown confronting his parents, who, according to the maid, are playing bridge. Instead, he goes to speak to Phoebe. Their dialogue is similar to that which appears in the later chapters of The Catcher in the Rye . The other notable feature of the story is that his sister Viola gets her first, and only, mention in the Caulfield saga. " This Sandwich Has No Mayonnaise " ( Esquire , 1945) has

1407-427: Is presented as the minutes of the women's meetings, which are taken by August Epp, the colony schoolteacher (and the novel's narrator) who has returned to the community after being excommunicated . Unlike the women, he has experience of the outside world, and is able to read and write and speak English (the women speak only Plautdietsch , an unwritten dialect of East Low German ). He performs his role of minute taker at

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1474-540: Is some ambiguity here because Holden is both alive and a high school student in Catcher , which was written and published after the war, so it is not possible for him to have been a soldier during the 1940s and a high school student in the early 50s. It is unclear how many Caulfield children there are and who is who. For instance, many have speculated that Holden's brother, D.B., is actually Vincent. However, Salinger wrote that Vincent died in World War II, and The Catcher in

1541-410: Is the author of The X Letters , a series of personal dispatches addressed to the father of her son, which were featured on This American Life in an episode about missing parents. Toews' father died by suicide in 1998. His death inspired Toews to write a memoir in her father's voice, Swing Low: A Life . The book was greeted as an instant classic in the modern literature on mental illness, and it won

1608-745: The Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. Toews' third novel, A Complicated Kindness (2004), is set in East Village , a small religious Mennonite town much like her native Steinbach. The narrator is Nomi Nickel, a curious, defiant, sardonic sixteen-year-old who dreams of hanging out with Lou Reed in the 'real' East Village of New York City . She lives alone with her doleful father, after

1675-471: The 2014 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize . The jury described it as "a haunting novel of tremendous feeling, beautifully written and profoundly humane... Miriam Toews, a dazzling literary alchemist who manages to summon all the joyous and heart-breaking humanity of her characters, has produced a work of astonishing depth. Reading it is an unforgettable experience." The novel was also awarded Italy's 2015 Sinbad Prize for Foreign Fiction. All My Puny Sorrows

1742-535: The 2019 Trillium Book Award . A film adaptation of the book, directed by Sarah Polley , and produced by and featuring Frances McDormand , Rooney Mara , and Claire Foy, was released in late 2022. At the 95th Academy Awards , Polley won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for her adaptation of Toews' novel. Toews' eighth novel, Fight Night , focuses on a multigenerational family of women living in Toronto:

1809-550: The Caulfield family are featured in " Last Day of the Last Furlough ", published in The Saturday Evening Post (July 15, 1944) and the unpublished short stories " The Last and Best of the Peter Pans " (c. 1942) and " The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls " (c. 1945). "I'm Crazy" is closely related to the first chapter of The Catcher in the Rye . It begins with Caulfield standing on a hill at Pencey Prep watching

1876-490: The Jury Prize at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival . In 2017, the film was named the twenty-third "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" by The New York Times . Silent Light begins with a long tracking shot of the sun rising over a beautiful plain. The protagonist Johan, his wife Esther, and their children sit silently saying grace, after which each member of Johan's family departs from their home except for him. Once he

1943-474: The Rye was published in 1951. At that time, D.B. is alive and working as a writer in Hollywood. Gladwaller's relationship with his younger sister can be seen as a parallel to Caulfield's relationship with Phoebe. "The Last and Best of the Peter Pans" relates the story of Vincent's draft questionnaire being hidden by his mother. The events occur just after the death of Kenneth (later renamed Allie) and reveal

2010-591: The Rye , which is set in 1948 or 1949. Salinger's first published Holden Caulfield story, " I'm Crazy ", appeared in Collier's on December 22, 1945. It is sometimes mistakenly reported that the name "Holden Caulfield" was derived by Salinger from a marquee or poster for the film Dear Ruth , starring William Holden and Joan Caulfield , but Dear Ruth was released in 1947, more than a year-and-a-half after Holden Caulfield's first appearance in print, and more than six years after Salinger's first unpublished short story

2077-437: The affair, but when they step outside to discuss it, the scene shows winter. No explanation is provided for the change of season. Johan's affair with Marianne continues; they have sex in a local hotel while Johan's children wait in a van with a stranger - someone whom Marianne seems to know and trust. As Johan is driving in his car with Esther, she confronts him about the affair. She says she is going to vomit and forces him to stop

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2144-415: The anxiety of Mary Moriarity, an actress and Caulfield's mother. The story is notable for the appearance of Phoebe and Vincent's statements about a child crawling off a cliff. In "The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls", Vincent (D.B.) recalls the day his brother Kenneth (Allie) died. The story is set at the Caulfield summer home on Cape Cod . Several details make their way from this story into Catcher , including

2211-452: The car. She runs off taking a blue umbrella, telling him not to follow. She breaks down crying along the side of a field, has what the doctor later describes as "coronary trauma," and dies. At her wake, friends and family are there to provide comfort. Johan visits the body, says his goodbyes, and goes outside for air. Marianne suddenly shows up at the wake and asks if she can spend a moment with Esther's body, which Johan allows. Marianne enters

2278-429: The case was too difficult to handle themselves, called local police to take the perpetrators into custody. Toews' novel centers on eight women of varying ages who, in the aftermath of such traumatic events, must determine what to do next. As they see it, they have three options: do nothing; stay and fight; or leave. The stakes are high, and they must come to a decision quickly. The colony men, who are away to post bail for

2345-584: The character of Nomi Nickel invoking comparisons to J. D. Salinger 's Holden Caulfield . It won the 2004 Governor General's Award for Fiction , described by the jury as "an unforgettable coming-of-age story... melancholic and hopeful, as beautifully complicated as life itself." It was also shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award . The novel

2412-516: The character of a prophetic son. The film was nominated in nine categories, including all major ones, for the Ariel Awards in Mexico. The film appeared on several critics' top ten lists of the best films of 2008. Some of the "making of" Silent Light appears in fictionalized form in the 2012 novel, Irma Voth , written by award-winning Canadian author, Miriam Toews . The novel is about

2479-416: The characterization of Allie; Allie's poetry-inscribed left-handed baseball mitt; Vincent's girlfriend, Helen, who keeps her kings in the back row (like Jane Gallagher); and Caulfield's critical view of others. While the cause of death in Catcher is leukemia , here it is due to an unspecified heart condition. Toward the end of the story, Kenneth and Vincent are on the beach. Kenneth decides to go swimming and

2546-400: The departure of her older sister and the unexplained disappearance of her mother. Unlike her father, who is a dutiful member of the church, Nomi is rebellious by nature, and her questioning brings her into conflict with the town's various authorities, most notably Hans Rosenfeldt, the sanctimonious church pastor. A Complicated Kindness was highly acclaimed nationally and internationally, with

2613-634: The dynamics of conflict and cooperation between the Spanish-Mexican film crew and the ultra- conservative Mennonites of the Cuauhtémoc Settlement where filming took place. Holden Caulfield Holden Caulfield (identified as " Holden Morrisey Caulfield " in the story "Slight Rebellion Off Madison", and " Holden V. Caulfield " in The Catcher in the Rye ) is a fictional character in the works of author J. D. Salinger . He

2680-430: The feisty, tomboyish 9-year-old Swiv, her heavily pregnant mother (nicknamed Mooshie), and her spirited and extraordinarily lively grandmother, Elvira. Recently expelled from school, Swiv helps her grandmother with bathing and chores, accompanies her around the city, and eventually travels with her to Fresno, California to meet members of their extended family. In exchange, Swiv learns about what it means to survive through

2747-567: The film has a weighted average score of 79 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". In the United States, the Time magazine reviewer wrote, "All the scenes shine with a visual and emotional brilliance". Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called the film "an apparently simple story about forgiving" in which "the images are of extraordinary beauty", and said that "The characters seem to be illuminated from

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2814-660: The inside." The magazine Sight & Sound rated it number 6 on their list of the top films of 2007. Roger Ebert ranked the film one of the top ten independent films of 2009 as well as one of the best films of the 2000s. The reviewer of Le Monde wrote that "Reygadas's genius makes every moment sacred." Film Comment remarked on Silent Light' s similarities to the film Ordet (1955) by Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer . Among other elements, it features pastoral farm scenes, ticking clocks, slow pacing, silence, similarly named central characters (Johan and Johannes in Ordet ),

2881-413: The mornings to discover they had been sexually violated. The attacks were dismissed as "wild female imagination", or else attributed to ghosts or demons. Eventually it was discovered that a group of colony men had been spraying an animal anesthetic into neighboring houses at night, rendering everyone unconscious, and raping the women (infants, elderly, and relatives included). The colony elders, deciding that

2948-603: The northern Mexican state of Chihuahua , the film depicts the same Mennonite community that features in Toews' novel. " Irma Voth and Silent Light provide interesting counterpoint views of a culture as seen through the eyes of an outsider. Of course, Reygadas and the fictional filmmaker in Irma Voth portray a society within its insular context, a culture out of time and place, while Toews and Irma Voth have learned to coexist in both worlds." All My Puny Sorrows (2014) recounts

3015-536: The novel draws heavily on events leading up to the 2010 suicide of her only sibling Marjorie. All My Puny Sorrows received starred reviews in Library Journal , Kirkus Reviews , and Publishers Weekly and was a Reference and Users Services Association Notable Book. It also appeared on a number of year-end best-book lists, including The Globe and Mail , The Boston Globe , The Washington Post , The New Republic , and The Daily Telegraph . The novel won

3082-532: The other Glass children . He is reportedly "killed during one of the landings in the Pacific". It is possible that Vincent is renamed Curtis, as Seymour was published in 1959, and both Curtis and Vincent are killed in the Pacific during World War II. None of Salinger's works to date have clarified exactly how many Caulfied children there were or who (aside from the Kenneth/Allie character) might have been

3149-402: The rapists, will soon be returning. Over the course of two days, in the privacy of a hayloft, the women have a series of fierce, philosophical debates. They discuss how they will heal, protect their children, educate their sons, keep their faith, and forgive. The colony's bishop, Peters, has told them that if they refuse to forgive their offenders, they will be denied entry into heaven. The novel

3216-470: The request of Ona Friesen, the object of his unrequited love and his childhood friend, who is one of the eight women in the hayloft. As time runs short for the women, and they begin to put their action plan into motion, August's story is also revealed. The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards , and for

3283-408: The room, slowly kisses Esther's body on the lips, and drops a tear on her cheek. Esther appears to return to life as Johan's father sets the clock on a nearby wall. Johan breaks down again, before one of his daughters says that "Mum wants to see him." Marianne leaves silently as Johan prepares to enter the room in which Esther waits. The final few minutes of Silent Light are another tracking shot, with

3350-479: The same person, but simply renamed in a later work. In " The Stranger ", published in Collier's December 1, 1945, Babe Gladwaller and his sister Mattie (a prototype for Phoebe) visit Vincent Caulfield's former girlfriend, now married, to tell her about his death and deliver a poem he wrote about her. Holden Caulfield is one of the most enduring characters in 20th-century American fiction. It has been suggested that Salinger himself related so closely to Holden that he

3417-549: The same time helping her better understand her place in the world. When her father's violence escalates and the tragedy that has haunted her family begins to surface, Irma receives the blessing of her mother to flee the encampment, and to take her two younger sisters with her, one of whom is an infant. They eventually settle in Mexico City, where the two older sisters must embrace the ways of the city in order to survive and raise their infant sister. Toews has said that Irma Voth

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3484-530: The second daughter of Mennonite parents, both part of the Kleine Gemeinde . Through her father, Melvin C. Toews, she is a direct descendant of one of Steinbach's first settlers, Klaas R. Reimer (1837–1906), who arrived in Manitoba in 1874 from Ukraine . Her mother, Elvira Loewen, is a daughter of the late C. T. Loewen, an entrepreneur who founded a lumber business that would become Loewen Windows . As

3551-460: The shortlist. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the 24th Independent Spirit Awards . It gained nine nominations, including all major categories, in the Ariel Awards , the Mexican national awards. Martin Scorsese described the work as "A surprising picture and a very moving one as well", while Barry Jenkins in 2019 named it as the best film of the 21st century. It was awarded

3618-527: The sun setting. Carlos Reygadas' films are known for their long sequences, slow rhythm, and use of nonprofessional actors. All the performers in Silent Light are Mennonites from communities in Mexico, Germany and Canada . Among the performers is Miriam Toews , a Canadian author who grew up in the Mennonite community of Steinbach, Manitoba and has written novels related to this culture. The film

3685-517: The tumultuous relationship of the Von Riesen sisters, Elfrieda and Yolandi, the only children of an intellectual, free-spirited family from a conservative Mennonite community. Yolandi, the novel's narrator, has always lived in her sister's shadow. Whereas Elfrieda is a gifted, beautiful, happily married, and much celebrated concert pianist, Yolandi feels like a failure, with a floundering writing career and teenage children from separate fathers. Yet it

3752-584: The ups and downs of life, and of her grandmother's story of despair, betrayal, stolen agency, and joy. The novel's structure takes the form of a letter Swiv writes to her absent father about life in the close-knit (yet often dysfunctional) household. As Swiv records her thoughts and observations, Fight Night unspools the pain, laughter, and unconditional love in the three women's stories, as they speak to what it takes to fight – painfully, joyously, and ferociously – and survive in life. Toews' father, Melvin C. Toews, suffered from bipolar disorder much of his life. He

3819-492: Was an international co-production by companies from Mexico, France and the Netherlands . On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film holds an approval rating of 88% based on 26 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website's consensus reads, " Silent Light demands patience -- and rewards willing viewers with a compassionate and beautifully filmed look at the human condition." On Metacritic ,

3886-534: Was an active and well-respected elementary school teacher who lobbied to establish Steinbach 's first public library. After his death by suicide, the Steinbach Library Board opened the Melvin C. Toews Reading Garden on the grounds of the library he worked to create. Toews' older sister and only sibling, Marjorie, died by suicide in 2010, almost 12 years to the day after their father. Toews' partner

3953-732: Was awarded the 2008 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize . The jury described the novel as "a love song to young people trying to navigate the volcanic world of adult emotions." The novel was also longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction , and named a Globe and Mail Best Book. With her fifth novel, Irma Voth (2011), Toews returned to the Mennonite community to re-examine the ways in which religious communities can limit personal freedom, and how belonging can turn to estrangement when old and new value systems clash. The novel opens in an old order Mennonite settlement in Mexico's Chihuahuan Desert . Nineteen-year-old Irma Voth has been banished to

4020-535: Was defended by writer Deni Ellis Béchard . A film adaptation of the book, directed by Michael McGowan , was released in 2021. In a note at the start of Women Talking (2018), Toews describes the novel as "a reaction through fiction" to the true-life events that took place between 2005 and 2009 on the Manitoba Colony , a remote Mennonite community in Bolivia. Girls and women would regularly wake up in

4087-466: Was inspired in part by her experience in playing a lead role in Silent Light , the 2007 film written and directed by Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas . Reygadas invited Toews to do a screen test for the role of Esther, a conservative Mennonite wife, after reading her third novel, A Complicated Kindness , and seeing her author photo on the back flap of the book. The film was shot in Plautdietsch ,

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4154-433: Was never published. It focuses on a fight between two characters named Bobby and Stradlater over Bobby's feelings about Jane Gallagher. This story appears to form the basis for several key scenes in the first several chapters of The Catcher in the Rye . In Seymour: An Introduction a Curtis Caulfield is mentioned in passing as "an exceptionally intelligent and likable boy" who appeared on the same radio show as Seymour and

4221-438: Was protective of the character. This was the reason he was unwilling to allow filming of the book or use of the character by other writers. Green Day wrote a song titled "Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?" for their second studio album, Kerplunk (1991) after lead singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong read The Catcher in the Rye . Initially, he gave up on reading it after dropping out from Pinole Valley High School when he

4288-433: Was selected for the 2006 edition of Canada Reads , the first book by a female writer to win the competition. The Flying Troutmans (2008) is a road-trip novel narrated by 28-year-old Hattie, who takes charge of her teenage niece and nephew after her sister Min is admitted to a psychiatric ward. Overwhelmed by the responsibility, Hattie enacts an ill-conceived plan to find the kids' long-lost father in California. The novel

4355-606: Was shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour , and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award . Toews won the latter prize with her second novel, A Boy of Good Breeding (1998). Toews has written for CBC's WireTap , Canadian Geographic , Geist , The Guardian , The New York Times Magazine , Intelligent Life , and Saturday Night . In 1999, she won a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Humour . She

4422-524: Was shortlisted for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize , the 2015 Folio Prize for Literature, and the 2015 Wellcome Book Prize . It was longlisted for the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award . The novel's French translation, Pauvres petits chagrins , was selected for the 2019 edition of Quebec's Le Combat des livres , where it

4489-564: Was written using this name for a character. Holden Caulfield is the narrator and main character of The Catcher in the Rye . The novel recounts Holden's week in New York City during Christmas break , circa 1948/1949, following his expulsion from Pencey Prep, a preparatory school in Pennsylvania based loosely on Salinger's alma mater Valley Forge Military Academy . Holden Caulfield tells his story with surprising honesty from

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