Siempre me causó curiosidad saber por qué Salinger había usado ese título.
Esto es lo que contesta el protagonista, Holden Caulfield, cuando su hermanita Phoebe le pregunta qué le gustaría ser cuando sea grande...
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around –nobody big, I mean– except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff –I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
Ayer lo terminé de leer. Estoy de duelo todavía.
