Went on a date with a girl from work and we started discussing books she mostly reads YA nowadays but he favorite book is Wuthering Heights I told her mine was Catcher in the Rye she twisted her face in disgust and told me she despised it.
I looked at the reviews on Goodreads and the majority of reviews from women are negative. The reason for this seems to be around Holden that he is a weak, boring character.
What's Veeky Forumss thought on Catcher in the Rye
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Never read it but my mom liked it, so that's at least one woman
I've noticed, anecdotally, that if the main character is not likeable then it ruins a book for women. Ignatius, Holden, Humbert Humbert, Oedipus, and Marlow have been cited as "ruining the book" for multiple women in the classes I've been in. Maybe it's because women tend to empathize more or maybe it's a product of the digital age training people to automatically decide if they like or don't like something.
Chicks dig Lolita, what are you talking about? Also anyone who says the Theban plays are among their favorite works is a poser and a pseud
it doesn't matter what women say.
I know some grills that love this book. It's just the kind of book that people either despise or worship.
>I've noticed, anecdotally, that if the main character is not likeable then it ruins a book for women.
Yeah great point. I think there's a biological element to it as well that woman are repulsed by weak men. I feel if Holden was a girl woman and she felt alienated, confused and sexually abused like Holden was the book would be beloved by women.
They're examples of works I've seen women disregard because the main character isn't likeable enough for them. I really don't give a shit if anyone likes them at all but that they're ones with unlikable characters. Like I said, I think this is more due to mainstream culture favoring a like/dislike mentality cultivated by social media. Things aren't considered holistically. I want to shoot myself when anyone says "I liked/didn't like the work" whenever a professor starts off discussion because that's as shallow as an analysis can be.
Holden is a well fleshed character that has enormous depth beneath the bratty behaviour and his clumsiness. Teenagers and people who despised him because "they couldn't identify with him" completely miss the point of the entire novel.
Catcher in the rye isn't just the story of a spoiled brat who wastes his parents' money. Pay attention to what you read.
i'm pretty sure a lot of men have the same opinion, or rather those who'd have this kind of opinion don't bother reading books to begin with