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Good point ... I know there's always been a kind of `search for the female
TCIR' - the Bell Jar is one example I heard suggested (just as unsatisfying
as any other suggestion I think) I personally think one of the great things
about Catcher is the way it seems to somehow transcend gender - I mean,
Holden is unmistakably a boy, but it's uncommon that a book should appeal
so much to both girls and boys.

> this is actually something that's always interested me: is holden's
> situation something that is quintessentially male? franny and holden have

> similar 'issues', as it were, but how does their gender influence their
> relative 'positions'. the first way that this comes to mind is in their
> boyfriend/girlfriend relationships... ie holden's GirlOnAPedestal
> syndrome, and his relationship with Sally, and Franny's rather imbalanced

> relationship with Lane. but those issues seem more to do with age and
> immaturity than with maleness/femininity.

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