This article aims to delineate the characteristics of Holden Caulfield, the adolescent hero protagonist of The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and to shed light on the reasons why this brooding adolescent prototype , displaying a rather cool style of disaffection, disenchantment and disillusionment has become an indispensable figure of interest, in literary circles as well as popular culture. The article seeks to challenge the broader dimensions attached to the "incapacity and enfeeblement" of which Holden is often accused and addresses Salinger's vision behind the Caulfield engraving precisely as he is. The article also wishes to highlight the sociopolitical implications that reverberate in the novel's rubric, Holden's characterization and his horror of the "falsity" that surrounds him - an aspect of the novel that has often been overlooked by critics, critics and commentators. likewise in their attempt to launch an avalanche of critical inquiries into the overall framework of a timeless and transcendent morality, which manages to escape the roots of the context that generated it. Furthermore, an important aim of the article is to bring critical attention to Caulfield in a compelling effort to place him in his rightful position as a remarkable hero of literary merit, similar to the often discussed analogies and comparisons of him with Huck Finn, David Copperfield, Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom, Peter Pan, Natty Bumppo, Quentin Compson and others. Towards the end of the gargantuan Herculean feat the paper intends to accomplish, it wishes to confirm Christopher Parker's assertion: "Caulfield, the individual is far more human than those of us who ask him if he will apply or not. .”Since his arrival o...... middle of paper .......D. Salinger. The New Yorker. Flight. XXVII, No. 26, August 11, 1951. Bloom, Harold. Holden Caulfield: Modern Critical Views. New York, 1990.Crawford, Catherine. If you really want to hear about it: writers on Salinger and his work. New York, 2006. Engle, Paul. “Honest tale of a clueless teenager.” Reverend from The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger. Chicago Sunday Tribune Book Magazine, July 15, 1951. Kanfer, Stefan. “Holden Today: Still in the Rye,” in Time, February 7, 1972. Nadel, Alan. Containment culture: American stories, postmodernism and the atomic age. Durham, North Carolina, 1995. Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. 1951; New York, 1989. Salinger, Margaret A. Dreamcatcher. New York, 2000. Shaw, Peter. “Love and Death in Catcher in the Rye,” in New Essays. ----Stevenson, David. “JD Salinger: The Mirror of Crisis.” The Nation, Vol. 184, n° 10, March 9 1957.