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See my comments below. If you don't believe me, look at the "unreliable protagonist" page on Wikipedia. You will see The Catcher In the Rye listed.

The story is written such that you are supposed to question whether he's telling you the whole truth. Like when he asks that girl to run away and get married with him, she keeps telling him to lower his voice, but he tells us he never raised it.

And then right after that he repeatedly tells us he wouldn't have run off with her anyway, but how do we know? I bet he would have. This sort of thing is scattered throughout the book. We don't know if we're hearing the truth.

Okay. Good points. I reckon I read "unreliable" as unlikeable, and thought any guy who wants to shield his baby sister from reading f.u.c.k. scrawled on a stairwell wall IS a likable guy. So, I get it. He can be unreliable yet still be likable.