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J. D. Salinger’s first novel, The Catcher in the Rye, has caused quite a controversy in the literary community over its distasteful language and adult situations, as well as to what literary movement the novel truly belongs to; modernism or postmodernism. Although the novel is filled with intertexuality, such as the writing style of a stream of consciousness, found in many other popular modernist writings, including those of Virginia Wolfe, it also travels through themes of religious conviction. Throughout the novel, however, Salinger often includes many uses of irony and satire through the main character of Holden Caulfield, a derisive and intelligent teenager that is caught between the innocence of childhood and adulthood. Holden’s rhetoric is packed with blunt statements of truth in his descriptions of society, as well as everything he encounters in his journey. His subjective attitude towards the world leads to the belief that Holden is an unreliable narrator. The elements and techniques that Salinger incorporates in The Catcher in the Rye help to characterize the novel simply as a piece of postmodern literature.