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“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die noble for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one”

Book gets very emotional at points, especially at the suicide mention, but Holden attempts to hide it. The perspective is so insightful on how a youth like him thinks and perceives.

A surprising read of delicacy and flavor for a classic of its nature. Syntactically, the book is ingenious, creating an illusion for actual consciousness of a common teen