The hero-narrator of is an ancient child of sixteen, a native new yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in pennsylvania and go...The hero-narrator of is an ancient child of sixteen, a native new yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in pennsylvania and goes underground in New York city for three days.