Holden Caulfield Character Analysis Essay
Holden Exposed In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, by: JD Salinger, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, is a seventeen year old boy telling a story of around last Christmas when he spent his weekend in New York. Holden is a very opinionated character. He is a character that has been related to by teenagers over the last 60 years. Holden learns throughout the book that childhood innocence can not be protected forever. Everybody needs to grow up at one time or another. This is a great lesson to be learned by readers. At some point in every successful person’s life they realized that the needed to mature and become a responsible, functioning adult. Holden Caulfield is a character that is unique in many ways; he also has many weaknesses,
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He has trouble maintaining a relationship with anybody. At one point in the novel, Holden’s roommate, Ward Stradlater asks Holden to write a descriptive composition for him. He was supposed to write the composition about a room but instead he recalled a memory of his younger brother Allie. His brother used to sit in right field during his baseball games and write poems in green ink. Holden’s brother died of cancer a couple years back. Holden’s brothers, Allie and D.B. and his sister Phoebe were the only people he kept in good touch with. Them, and his childhood friend Jane Gallagher. While Holden is away at boarding school he hardly ever gets to talk to any of His friends. Holden is forced to make friends with phonies. Holden considers everybody at the prep schools he attends phonies. After Holden gets kicked out of Pencey Prep, He heads for New York. While in New York Holden has an encounter with a prostitute. He asks for the prostitute to come up to his room. Once the prostitute, Sunny, gets there she immediately begins to get undressed. This is when Holden interrupted with, “’don’t you feel like talking for a while”’ (95)? Holden just wanted to talk, but he had nobody to talk to. The best he could do was talk to a
He has trouble maintaining a relationship with anybody. At one point in the novel, Holden’s roommate, Ward Stradlater asks Holden to write a descriptive composition for him. He was supposed to write the composition about a room but instead he recalled a memory of his younger brother Allie. His brother used to sit in right field during his baseball games and write poems in green ink. Holden’s brother died of cancer a couple years back. Holden’s brothers, Allie and D.B. and his sister Phoebe were the only people he kept in good touch with. Them, and his childhood friend Jane Gallagher. While Holden is away at boarding school he hardly ever gets to talk to any of His friends. Holden is forced to make friends with phonies. Holden considers everybody at the prep schools he attends phonies. After Holden gets kicked out of Pencey Prep, He heads for New York. While in New York Holden has an encounter with a prostitute. He asks for the prostitute to come up to his room. Once the prostitute, Sunny, gets there she immediately begins to get undressed. This is when Holden interrupted with, “’don’t you feel like talking for a while”’ (95)? Holden just wanted to talk, but he had nobody to talk to. The best he could do was talk to a