Because he couldn't inspire you to read 'Catcher in the Rye" so you could do your own homework!
So you want to send me an insulting e-mail but not let me reply to you.
First you need to get the grip not I. I've done my homework - just like most of the people on this board. And we all know you will learn something from doing your own work. That's what we want - someone with the intelligence to do his/her own homework and think analytically to come into the workforce in a few years...not someone looking for the easy way out.
If you've read this book, as you claim, explain to me why Holden Caufield was a tragic hero. If you've got time to come on this board to get others to do your homework, you've got more than enough time to write your own paper.
With the help of his parents, I just got one of my nephews to read a book when I could have let him watch my movie of the book. He loved the book, wrote a great review and appreciated the movie even more for the work he had put into it - even knew when the movie didn't follow the exact history or elaborated or winged it for entertainment effect.
Teachers and parents and other adults are not out to get you, we're out to make you smarter by helping you learn to think for yourself. In the end, it helps us, too.