TITLE OF NOVEL: The Catcher in the Rye
(I used a pdf of the novel and need to get a real copy of the book to redo my page numbers)
CITATION
Salinger, J. D., E. Michael Mitchell, and Lotte Jacobi.
The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1951. Print.
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Interactions with roommates
His relentless emotional connection to Jane Gallahger when he realizes Stradlater (17-19)
Possessive over Jane
Indirectly becoming infuriated by the thought of Stradlater with Jane and childishly tackling Stradlater to the ground, causing Stradlater to become furious and punching Caulfield (22-25)
Consistency of lying to others - immaturity in society
Using false identities out of boredom …show more content…
"Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye:
The Isolated Youth and His Struggle to Communicate." Contemporary Literary Criticism, edited by Lawrence J. Trudeau, vol. 378, Gale, 2015. Literature Resource Center, go.galegroup.com. Originally published in Studies in J. D. Salinger, edited by Marvin Laser and Norman Fruman, Odyssey, 1963, pp. 177-185.
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“He is in that unhappy phase of life, that transitional stage, where he has outgrown the relatively well-ordered world of his childhood and must find his way in the world of adults”
Holden in stuck in the transition from child to adult, finds himself perplexed between the two stages in life.
Seems to be an outsider to society, running from his responsibilities in his life
Isolates himself to escape from reality which contrasts the time the story takes place, around Christmas which is a festive holiday where people come together
“Unlike his schoolmates Stradlater and Ackley, Holden possesses a refined moral instinct, an unusually critical but also creative intellect, a lively imagination, a passion for asking questions and, above all, a great desire for contact and love.”
His level of maturity undermines those of his