Examples Of Depression In Catcher In The Rye
Sadness and Depression
Lauren Shipman
Block 4
Mr.Devine
English 11 H
3/9/14
Sunday, March 9, 14
Sadness in Catcher in the Rye
Catcher in the Rye is a book of many themes of many different types of different things Sadness is one of them. The main character of the book is Holden
Caulfield, he has major problems, he finds nearly everything depressing. Today we’d say that Holden
Clinically is depressed. He has no reason to be so sad all the time. He’s alone and he knows it, he also hates everyone and judges them. The conclusion is that isolation and alienation from others is the source of his depression. The hard part comes in where the fact that escaping this isolation is a struggle that can often be quite sad. For example, …show more content…
Holden wants to become connected with people, but in order to do so it would means he has to make an emotional connection that will probably end up making him depressed. This is where he picks feeling sad about leaving a place than feeling sad about the fact that he doesn't get to feel connected enough to be sad.
Sunday, March 9, 14
Check out all those things that make holden depressed. Do they have anything in common?
It seems as if just about everything bothers him and he doesn’t like many things. Also, he doesn't say many positive things, and if he does, it’s closely followed by a negative. We know that
Allie’s death was hugely significant for Holden. Most of the things Holden is depressed about is different types of people they all have in common his judment for these different types of people. For example Bros, “He was one of those guys that think they’re being a pansy if they don’t break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God, I hate that stuff.” Another example is women, “I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn’t any brains.” Then phonies “You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were.” By the end of the novel,
Holden's depression starts to get physical: he's nauseous,
he has a headache, he feels dizzy, and he eventually passes out.
Sunday, March 9, 14
Holden is most happy at the end of chapter Twenty-Five, while he watches Phoebe go around on the carousel. In fact, he’s so happy damn near bawling. “Why does this, of all things, make him happy?
As far as we know, there is only one part of the entire book where
Holden is acctually really happy.
So happy, in fact, that he's "damn near bawling." This part of the book is where he's out in the rain watching Phoebe go around and around on the carousel. She just looks so beautiful, in her blue coat, going around. There is so much more than just her riding the carousel. A few things have just happened, majorly Holden decided that he is not going to run away, Phoebe puts Holden’s hunting hat back on his head,
Holden has realized that growing up isn't the worst thing in the world. Sunday, March 9, 14
From the tone of his narration does Holden sound like he’s still sad, now that he’s seventeen and telling the story? Or is it more of a, “Sure i was sad then, but im
OK now” sort of deal?
Holden is ok now but telling the story brings back the sadness for him. It is like he is re living it and that is what makes him sad and upset again. He seems in so many ways to be a typical teenager battling typical teenage issues of identity, it seems like he is using these words to exaggerate or get his point across. For example when he says he wishes he were dead, it seems at first as if he's using the phrase as a teenage expression to make his emotions seem as intense to you as they seem to him. Holden is a bit of a drama king but i feel like he is ok that he is seventeen and telling the story.
Sunday, March 9, 14
The more Holden connects to other people in The Catcher in the Rye, the more depressed he becomes.
Holden doesn’t try to connect to other people because he isolates himself from everyone, he thinks everyone is phony. From the very first chapter of Catcher in the Rye, when
Holden decides not to attend the football game that the rest of his school is attending, it is clear that Holden doesn't fit in. Isolation alienation both protects and harms Holden. It protects him by making sure that he will not ever have to form connections with people that might wind up causing emotional pain he felt when Allie died. It is also severely harmimg him, making him lonely and depressed. He fears human contact which leads to alienation, which leads to loneliness.
Holden depends on his isolation to preserve his detachment from the world and to maintain a level of self protection he doesn’t want to feel pain like he did when Allie died.
Sunday, March 9, 14
Lauren Shipman
Block 4
Mr.Devine
English 11 H
3/9/14
Sunday, March 9, 14
Sadness in Catcher in the Rye
Catcher in the Rye is a book of many themes of many different types of different things Sadness is one of them. The main character of the book is Holden
Caulfield, he has major problems, he finds nearly everything depressing. Today we’d say that Holden
Clinically is depressed. He has no reason to be so sad all the time. He’s alone and he knows it, he also hates everyone and judges them. The conclusion is that isolation and alienation from others is the source of his depression. The hard part comes in where the fact that escaping this isolation is a struggle that can often be quite sad. For example, …show more content…
Holden wants to become connected with people, but in order to do so it would means he has to make an emotional connection that will probably end up making him depressed. This is where he picks feeling sad about leaving a place than feeling sad about the fact that he doesn't get to feel connected enough to be sad.
Sunday, March 9, 14
Check out all those things that make holden depressed. Do they have anything in common?
It seems as if just about everything bothers him and he doesn’t like many things. Also, he doesn't say many positive things, and if he does, it’s closely followed by a negative. We know that
Allie’s death was hugely significant for Holden. Most of the things Holden is depressed about is different types of people they all have in common his judment for these different types of people. For example Bros, “He was one of those guys that think they’re being a pansy if they don’t break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God, I hate that stuff.” Another example is women, “I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn’t any brains.” Then phonies “You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they were.” By the end of the novel,
Holden's depression starts to get physical: he's nauseous,
he has a headache, he feels dizzy, and he eventually passes out.
Sunday, March 9, 14
Holden is most happy at the end of chapter Twenty-Five, while he watches Phoebe go around on the carousel. In fact, he’s so happy damn near bawling. “Why does this, of all things, make him happy?
As far as we know, there is only one part of the entire book where
Holden is acctually really happy.
So happy, in fact, that he's "damn near bawling." This part of the book is where he's out in the rain watching Phoebe go around and around on the carousel. She just looks so beautiful, in her blue coat, going around. There is so much more than just her riding the carousel. A few things have just happened, majorly Holden decided that he is not going to run away, Phoebe puts Holden’s hunting hat back on his head,
Holden has realized that growing up isn't the worst thing in the world. Sunday, March 9, 14
From the tone of his narration does Holden sound like he’s still sad, now that he’s seventeen and telling the story? Or is it more of a, “Sure i was sad then, but im
OK now” sort of deal?
Holden is ok now but telling the story brings back the sadness for him. It is like he is re living it and that is what makes him sad and upset again. He seems in so many ways to be a typical teenager battling typical teenage issues of identity, it seems like he is using these words to exaggerate or get his point across. For example when he says he wishes he were dead, it seems at first as if he's using the phrase as a teenage expression to make his emotions seem as intense to you as they seem to him. Holden is a bit of a drama king but i feel like he is ok that he is seventeen and telling the story.
Sunday, March 9, 14
The more Holden connects to other people in The Catcher in the Rye, the more depressed he becomes.
Holden doesn’t try to connect to other people because he isolates himself from everyone, he thinks everyone is phony. From the very first chapter of Catcher in the Rye, when
Holden decides not to attend the football game that the rest of his school is attending, it is clear that Holden doesn't fit in. Isolation alienation both protects and harms Holden. It protects him by making sure that he will not ever have to form connections with people that might wind up causing emotional pain he felt when Allie died. It is also severely harmimg him, making him lonely and depressed. He fears human contact which leads to alienation, which leads to loneliness.
Holden depends on his isolation to preserve his detachment from the world and to maintain a level of self protection he doesn’t want to feel pain like he did when Allie died.
Sunday, March 9, 14