Catcher In The Rye Fear Analysis
Many people live their lives in a constant state of fear. Some people are afraid of being alone or alienated, while others are afraid of social interactions and other people. When one lives in a state of fear, it can have debilitating consequences. It can lead to insecurity and in extreme cases, mental breakdowns. Fear plays an important roll in J.D. Salinger's fictional coming-of-age novel The Catcher in the Rye. Fear is demonstrated through the actions of protagonist Holden Caulfield, he is afraid of losing his innocence and wishes he could remain an innocent child. It seems as if its hard for him to face the responsibilities that come when people get older. Holden has been continuously kicked out of schools for failing classes and thats
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It is very clear in the novel that Holden is afraid of change, he doesn’t want The Museum of Natural History. Holden loves the museum because it serves as a sense of permanence and order, which is totally different from his own world where things are always out of place and going wrong. “The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was.” (Salinger,121)
At museums things never change everything in the display stays the same; the dinosaurs never move, the taxidermy animals never move. Nothing ever changes in a museum the only thing that does change is the children that visit the museum day after day.
Holden has a ten year old sister named Phoebe. She is the last thing Holden has in terms of innocence and hes afraid that shes growing up too fast and that she will change. Phoebe is not some dumb little ten year old she is described to be very smart in the novel and also a great dancer. “You'd like her. I mean if you tell old Phoebe something, she knows exactly what the hell you're talking about. I mean you can even take her anywhere with you. If you take her to a lousy movie, for instance, she knows it's a lousy movie. If you take her to a pretty good movie, she knows it's a pretty good movie.” (Salinger,67). Phoebe is still has this child-like keen interest as well as this adult-like edge, as young as she may be she points out to Holden that he really doesn’t like school and a bunch of other things in life. “ Because you don't. You don't like any schools. You don't like a million things. You
It is very clear in the novel that Holden is afraid of change, he doesn’t want The Museum of Natural History. Holden loves the museum because it serves as a sense of permanence and order, which is totally different from his own world where things are always out of place and going wrong. “The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was.” (Salinger,121)
At museums things never change everything in the display stays the same; the dinosaurs never move, the taxidermy animals never move. Nothing ever changes in a museum the only thing that does change is the children that visit the museum day after day.
Holden has a ten year old sister named Phoebe. She is the last thing Holden has in terms of innocence and hes afraid that shes growing up too fast and that she will change. Phoebe is not some dumb little ten year old she is described to be very smart in the novel and also a great dancer. “You'd like her. I mean if you tell old Phoebe something, she knows exactly what the hell you're talking about. I mean you can even take her anywhere with you. If you take her to a lousy movie, for instance, she knows it's a lousy movie. If you take her to a pretty good movie, she knows it's a pretty good movie.” (Salinger,67). Phoebe is still has this child-like keen interest as well as this adult-like edge, as young as she may be she points out to Holden that he really doesn’t like school and a bunch of other things in life. “ Because you don't. You don't like any schools. You don't like a million things. You