J.D. Salinger became famous world-wide owing to his novel The Catcher in the Rye. The Catcher in the Rye is Salinger’s best work in which he depicts Holden Caulfield, a teenager with lots of problems. He is kicked out from school, he lost his brother, he does not have close relationship with his parents and this all influences him. Holden has many psychological problems and he does not know how to deal with them and because of it he falls deeper and deeper in those problems. Holden tries to solve his problems with violence, sex, alcohol and later on he even becomes totally depressed. Salinger made effort to show that not only grownups have problems but also young adolescents who are seeking attention and love. Salinger uses Holden as a symbol of problems in the 1950s and he tries to solve those problems by bringing them closer to people.