Holden's Downfall

In the dynamic novel, The Catcher in the Rye created by J.D. Salinger, portrayed Holden as a dishonest boy with sloth, pride, and wrath that caused trouble for him. With this thought in mind, Holden did not care to apply himself in school; soon you see sloth in him and his grades suffer because of that. Holden wrote about his life, school, and how he failed most of his classes. He even said, “I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself and all. They gave me frequent warning to start applying myself… but I didn’t do it” (Salinger 4). Holden only passed english, but he did not care about school so he did not work hard to learn new ideas and thoughts. His laziness resulted for him to fail subjects in school which will not help him in the future. Holden was kicked out of Pencey, one of his old
Lastly, Holden showed wrath multiple times, but his worse time was when Allie died. Allie was Holden's younger brother who Holden cared about a lot. Holden went into the garage and smashed all the windows. Allie’s death had a huge impact on Holden, that was the only way he could cope with Allie’s death. He even admitted he “broke all the goddam windows with [his] fist, just for the hell of it” (Salinger 39). Holden’s parents wanted him to get checked because he acted wild and out of order. That was another reason why Holden’s anger got the best of him and he smashed all the garage windows. He almost smashed the car windows, but his hand was already cut and bruised from the other windows in the garage, so he decided against it. This caused trouble for him because he was either going to hurt himself or someone else because of his anger. The novel The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger, created Holden’s character filled with sloth, pride, and wrath toward everyone he encountered throughout the novel, which caused him to get in trouble most