now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen.” (Salinger 9). In the novel “The Catcher in the Rye” the main character Holden Caulfield struggles between acting like an adult and acting like a child. Whether he’s out avoiding all of his problems or he’s trying to get a waiter to bring him an alcoholic drink even though he is under age, Holden acted like a child. Holden is seventeen during the time he is telling us about the things he did when he was sixteen and throughout the whole novel he
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Hollow Man In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield believes that almost everyone he comes in contact with is a “phony”. About the only two people that Holden does not consider phonies are his sister, Phoebe, and his dead brother Allie. Virtually everyone else fits this label, including himself. The root of Holden’s pessimistic outlook on life and people is the fact that he is invisible. Although Holden is a phony himself, he has a negative view of society because he wants to
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parents, Sol and Marie, thought he would fit in perfectly in a private school – seeing how well-mannered that young Salinger was – they “enrolled him in McBurney School in Manhattan in 1932” (Alexander 2), but, just as one of his most famous characters, Holden Caufield, he did not fit in very well in the private school, struggling to keep his grades satisfactory. Concerned, Salinger’s parents sent him to Valley Forge Military Academy when he was just 15 years old. “There he was active in drama and singing
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“What really knocks me out is a book that when you’re done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and could call him up on the whenever you felt like it.” - Holden Caulfield Even though the Catcher in the Rye is one of history’s most well recognized book ever written it has it’s definite flaws. It never started out that way. Among the many great books that has been written it has a meaningful story behind it. J.D Salinger was born January 1st 1919 to the
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In Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, unstable teenager Holden Caulfield recounts his experiences navigating New York while meeting new people after being kicked out of many schools. Holden, after experiencing tragedy with the death of his brother, isolates himself from the world around him, which he believes is filled with “phonies”. Holden’s thoughts and actions along his journey prove Jodi Picoult’s assertion that “if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy
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The story Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger is about a 16-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield. His story starts off in a mental institution where he is undergoing treatment for a severe nervous breakdown, after being kicked out of Pencey Prep. This is not the first time he got kicked out of school, he continuously fails academically regardless of the school. He develops deep depression over the death of his younger brother, Allie, who died from Leukemia about three years ago. He is not sociable
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choices. This is what seems to be the problem with Holden Caulfield, the narrator of the novel. Holden does not make the smartest decision multiple times throughout the story. Because of the frontal lobe disconnection in Holden’s brain caused him to attack Stradlater, almost have sex with a prostitute, and to not care about school.
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The Metamorphosis of Holden in Sallinger's Catcher in the Rye In J.D. Sallinger's Catcher in the Rye, is based on the sullen life of Holden Caulfield, a 16-year-old teen-ager is trying to find his sense of direction. Holden, a growing adult, cannot accept the responsibilities of an adult. Eventually realizing that there is no way to avoid the adult life, he can only but accept this alternative lifestyle. What Holden describes the adult world as a sinful, corrupted life, he avoids
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The story was full of pain, suffering, and above all, just a dark story in general but it was covered up by making it humorous which made it a way better story. So the main character of the story is Holden Caulfield, the man with the depression and all the sadness and darkness surrounding him. Holden was suffering from so many consequences like depression, anxiety, and was trying to be suicidal but the tone of how that was represented changed since it was brought to the reader as a funny tone instead
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Holden Caulfield - The protagonist and narrator, a teenager alienated by the world around him, he seeks comfort in his loneliness, as he barely has anybody who can relate to his struggles with growing up. Although he's very sensitive, his behavior is often rash and childish, not to mention very judgmental. He likes the innocence and overall simplicity of childhood, he gets along with children better than with adults. He is a troubled student and has just been expelled from his school, Pencey Prep
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