I think Catcher in the Rye pulls off the angsty teen pretty well, especially that age when you start to see how much of the adult world is bullshit. One of the things that spoke to me was how Holden really admired this piano player that worked at a club in his neighborhood.

I can't remember exactly how he said it but he'd go watch him and be so impressed but once the club started filling up with people the pianist would start playing really show-boaty and embellish everything to the point it was tacky... Anyway the part that always stuck with me is when he said that if he could play the piano that well, he'd play it in the fucking closet... I feel this way all the time even today with all the instagram tik-tok shorts of musicians playing to the algos