The director of Rebel Without a Cause and J.D. Salinger (Catcher in the Rye) both do a great job of capturing what it is like to be a teen. At some point, everyone goes through the point where they feel alone and not understood. Both the film and book we have been studying have showed exactly what that can be like. As we learn more about these characters, we can see that they have a heart, but no one can help them. Like most teens, they have a hard time getting out their emotions and when it's too late they explode because they haven't been able to express themselves.
I think Peter Parker is one of the best representations of the modern teen. He always tries to do what's right, but in the end he loses something. He just an ordinary kid but he has a dark side to him that he can't explain. If anything shows what it's like to be a teenager, it's Spiderman (Film and Books).
I agree with your first interpretation, and that they both are able to catch that miserable and isolated feeling factor, but I must disagree that that's what makes it a good representation of teenage-hood. This is mainly due to the fact that it is not only teenagers that experience this emotion, we have just steriotyped it that way because it is how it has been publicized for years, by exactly these types of works. Yes they do show a version of the teenage years, but to me that's all it is...a version.
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