Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Our book group decided to give this classic a try to see if it read any differently to us as adults than it did to the disgruntled teen-agers we may have been when we read it the first time.  Truthfully, I didn't remember a thing about the first reading than the existence of Phoebe and the source of the title.  I'd like to think that my view of life during the first reading was not as sour as Holden's.  But after years of observing young adults trying to understand how to trust and embrace a world and a future that seems disappointing at best, I may be more sympathetic to Holden as an adult than I might have been as a teen-ager sharing in his angst.  However there is a Stekel quote shared by a teacher: "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."  It made me think of all those comfortable middle America kids turning terrorist.  Was Salinger trying to tell us something?