Catcher In The Rye Monotony Glass Analysis

Every child is warned of the “adult world” where all the magic and fairytales of their previous years disappear, where enjoyment is succeeded by exhaustion and monotony, and where they have to pay taxes! During their youth, a considerable portion is dedicated to fortifying their emotions for their upcoming toils. However, what happens when life shatters this fantasy too early? Holden Caulfield from Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Franny Glass from his short stories, Franny and Zooey are two incidents of when the adolescent illusion cracks prematurely. Both of these characters suffer from the death of their beloved sibling. Holden is an abnormal, introverted teenager who isolates himself from the rest of the “phony” people in the world. After running away from his “phony” schoolmates, he begins his adventure in maturing which was previously inhibited due to the death of his brother. Franny Glass is quite different from Holden, however, they both share a common cause of their issues. Franny is a college student who became diminishingly less social as she pursued her deceased brother’s religious
The arrogance is quite blatant in Salinger’s word choice, displayed through Holden’s utilization of the word “phony” and Franny’s dialogue with Lane about the incompetent people in the literature department of her school. (Franny 18) However, the source of this hubris is exceedingly more convoluted. A possibility for the prideful remarks could be due to the inability for society to understand their emotional strife and this failure provides the two with the idea that they understand more than that of an ordinary person. Another potentiality is that they are so blindly devoted to their deceased siblings’ values that they deny all other principles. From a broad perspective, the arrogance and cynicism only supplements the deaths’ impact on both of these