Holden Caulfield is a serial school-dropout with a solid hate of humankind. The novel relates his way home from the last school he dropped out to his parents in New York. Not very much happens over that short period of merely two days, but Holden has more than enough opportunity to scrutinise human behaviour and reflect on it.

Seeing that there is no plot worth mentioning, let alone any »action« in the novel, nor character development or conflict − this is still an easy read. Makes for musings on humankind, but certainly on the dark and sombre side.