Trivia / The Catcher in the Rye

• Creator Backlash: J. D. Salinger came to regret writing and publishing the novel, not least for its success putting him in the public eye and for overshadowing his other works, particular the Glass family.
• No Adaptations Allowed: Various film adaptations and even a theatrical adaptation have been proposed, but they have all been shot down.
• Referenced by...:
  • In Six Degrees of Separation, both the play and movie, Paul claims his stolen thesis is about the Misaimed Fandom towards Salinger's novel.
  • In Riverdale Veronica and Betty discuss about Jughead, who is even called Holden Caulfield by Veronica, and the character is an Expy of the protagonist.
  • The Laughing Man in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex uses a quote from the novel as part of his Sigil Spam.
  • D4DJ: The four-person DJ unit Lyrical Lily has a song called "The Catcher in the Rhyme" (in general, a lot of their song titles are derived from or taken verbatim from titles of classical literature).
• What Could Have Been: J. D. Salinger had been approached about a film adaptation over the years, always turning it down because he didn't want a repeat of the 1949 film My Foolish Heart (loosely based on his short story "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut"). When Ralph Bakshi offered to make it into an animated film with live-action bookends, Salinger told Bakshi that the novel wasn't fit for any other medium.

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