Why Is The Catcher In The Rye Banned

“The Catcher in the Rye” was first banned around 1961-1982 for reasons such as; profanity, sexual references, and degrading others. The main character, Holden Caulfield, is viewed as a defiant teenager, but in reality he’s just going through some problems and acting how any boy his age would.

Holden, being a teenager and not regarding anyone else’s feelings, has strange ways of conversing and communicating. This book is filled with profanity, references to premarital sex and prostitution, statements making fun of or degrading women and the disabled, etc. Holden doesn’t necessarily think of anyone’s feelings other than his own. If they aren’t on his level he’ll call them a phony or make fun of them in some manner.

The book was first banned in 1961. Parents didn’t think their children should be reading about stuff like sexual intercourse and prostitution. They also didn’t want their kids exposed to the kind of language in the book. The profanity ranges anywhere from minor to extreme swear words. Holden uses the lord’s name in vain, he uses words as bad as the F-word, etc. Almost all parts of this book have at least some form of profanity or inappropriate content.
The amount of swearing in it is unbelievable and not all kids should be exposed to that. Not everyone thinks the same and some people may get the wrong idea and think the things mentioned in the book are