Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Who is the main character in “The Catcher in the Rye”?"
...Sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield is the protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s 1951 novel, “The Catcher in the Rye.” The book itself covers only two days in Caulfield’s life, after he’s been expelled from school. Caulfield relays his story from what readers can assume is a mental health hospital.