Catcher in the rye symbol essay
English 10 HP
October 25, 2013
Rough Draft Compare and Contrast Essay Holden Caulfield and Jay Gatsby external appearance would lead one to believe that they are just ordinary. Holden is the protagonist from J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and his outward features would suggest that he is a typical sixteen year old boy, but in reality there is much more than meets the eye. He deceitful, reserved, and a critical human being with a complicated past that explains why he became this way. Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby also has a complex past that made him keep to himself until he meet his new neighbor Nick Carraway. Who he shares his thoughts and feelings with, even though his rumors and lifestyle would concluded that he isn’t what most people had thought of him, most people don’t know that he was poor and given the opportunity to become wealthy. Both Gatsby and Holden have various similarities, they are reserved, deceivers, and are intelligent, some qualities standout more than others, but throughout both novels these traits tend to be the most common. Nick Carraway became Gatsby friend and allowed him to express his feelings, unlike Holden who keeps his feeling bottled up, until the end of the novel. The external appearance of both characters would lead one to suggest they isn’t anything wrong with either person. Gatsby has his wealth and luxury as a safeguard so it harder to tell he is emotional person while Holden is just an average teenager for a distance. “It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two… I ordered a Scotch and soda, which is my favorite drink, next to frozen Daiquiris… So I just laid around in bed for a while and smoked another cigarette” (20) (140), (141). Just by looking a Holden’s physical condition he may look like a teenager, but he does several adult things such a smoke and drink also he is even more complicated because his brother died young and lives with that guilt that it was his fault. “I hear you
October 25, 2013
Rough Draft Compare and Contrast Essay Holden Caulfield and Jay Gatsby external appearance would lead one to believe that they are just ordinary. Holden is the protagonist from J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and his outward features would suggest that he is a typical sixteen year old boy, but in reality there is much more than meets the eye. He deceitful, reserved, and a critical human being with a complicated past that explains why he became this way. Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby also has a complex past that made him keep to himself until he meet his new neighbor Nick Carraway. Who he shares his thoughts and feelings with, even though his rumors and lifestyle would concluded that he isn’t what most people had thought of him, most people don’t know that he was poor and given the opportunity to become wealthy. Both Gatsby and Holden have various similarities, they are reserved, deceivers, and are intelligent, some qualities standout more than others, but throughout both novels these traits tend to be the most common. Nick Carraway became Gatsby friend and allowed him to express his feelings, unlike Holden who keeps his feeling bottled up, until the end of the novel. The external appearance of both characters would lead one to suggest they isn’t anything wrong with either person. Gatsby has his wealth and luxury as a safeguard so it harder to tell he is emotional person while Holden is just an average teenager for a distance. “It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two… I ordered a Scotch and soda, which is my favorite drink, next to frozen Daiquiris… So I just laid around in bed for a while and smoked another cigarette” (20) (140), (141). Just by looking a Holden’s physical condition he may look like a teenager, but he does several adult things such a smoke and drink also he is even more complicated because his brother died young and lives with that guilt that it was his fault. “I hear you