Salinger, Sutree and me

Knoxville Predystopia Blues

J. D. Salinger’s iconic voice of the disaffected postwar generation serves also to signal a coming dystopia, where the entire world run by the so-called adults would prove to be “phony.” Salinger’s hook and vehicle in Catcher in the Rye is the voice of the narrator, Holden Caulfield, conveying both internal attitude, social in…