Catcher In The Rye Reflection

In this essay, I tried to replicate the meaning behind the book The Catcher in the Rye, which was the maturing of the main character, Holden, and his acceptance of the real world. I also tried to make the style of writing similar to J.D Salinger’s. I wanted to show that Holden was still struggling to change, and that he couldn’t get a grasp on the world until now. People don’t really change their way of thinking over time. It usually takes them a lot of time to change so I wanted to delineate that in the story. I think that a person like Holden would not change so quickly as he did in the book.
I could get into how I got out of that stupid insane asylum, but I don’t want to bore all you. I think they were trying to help and all, but they weren’t doing a very good job. In fact, all they managed to do was just drive me away. I got out of that horrible place, I took my cash and got on a train straight to Denver. After I got to Denver, I hiked out into the mountains, and I found myself a job in this gas station. It isn’t the most glamorous job, but it got me away from all the phonies in the cities. I make myself enough money, and I found myself an old run-down cabin to live in. The
I decided that I would write a letter to my younger sister, Phoebe. We hadn’t spoken in about ten years, so I wrote her the letter explaining where I was and what I had done for the last ten years. I worked real hard on that letter, and it took me about three hours to write. After I was finished, I took one long look at it, and I realized that all this would do was make me look like a big phony for being gone all those years. I looked at it and felt that I couldn’t send it. I didn’t want her coming to me and telling me about the big phony world and how people are going on in the world. I also knew that if I sent the letter to her, my family would find me and take me back to the insane asylum. The truth was that I just didn’t want to return