Catcher In The Rye Identity Quotes

“Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.” This quote is from the protagonist ,Louie Zamperini, in the book “Unbroken”, by Laura Hillenbrand, replicates how precisely Holden views the world. Throughout the storyline of the “Catcher in the Rye,” by JD Salinger, a seventeen year old boy named Holden has a different perspective on everyone he meets. Everyone Holden meets he thinks of them as a phonie. By him thinking that the entire society is fake, he starts to alienate and keeps pushing himself farther away from society to get away from all these so called “phonies.” He is longing to leave society and be on his own, but
Holden alienates himself from all the changes that occur around him. Holden segregated himself when he didn't go down to the seats for the last football game at Pencey. He secludes himself on the grounds that he gets kicked out of the considerable number of schools he goes to. Every one of those progressions panic Holden off, he gets to be reluctant to feel secure. Holden additionally estranges himself in light of the fact that he believes nobody, he supposes everyone is a phony. Ever since then, Holden has been avoiding his family and ignoring his friends. One place in the book where Holden shows that he does not like interaction with others is when he says, “I kept standing there, of giving old Jane a buzz- I mean calling her long distance at B.M... The only reason I didn't call him was because I wasn't in the mood." (63,Salinger) . This shows that he has been keeping to himself and is avoiding everyone and pushing himself apart from society. Ever since he got kicked out his school, Pencey Prep, Holden is always on street acting like he is all grown up by going to bars and smoking/drinking. All he wants is for the world to be pure, but all he keeps seeing are