Holden's Economic Class In Catcher In The Rye

Economic classes tend to divide people by one thing, money. Nowadays there is a stereotype that the more money you have your gain an attitude and you're selfish. In the Book Catcher in the Rye The main protagonist Holden Is a student who gooses out to New York to get away from his parents, acquaintances, and teachers and tries to be mature. During this trip, he learns that if isolates and flees from his problems it will only hurt him in the long run. His living situation would affect how he thinks of others and how he treats them because of that. What caused him to act this way during his trip is because of his economic class because when people around them influence people they tend to act a certain way. If Holden were to have grown up without would he realize that he could treat others differently? Holden forms an opinion about everything; he mainly forms the opinion about how most people are phonies and isolates everyone from him. This happens at
the begging of the book he is talking to old Spencer and talk about his and talks about his parents,“ I had the privilege of meeting your mother and dad…They’re grand people”(9) Holden replies with a nice comment but he dislikes the way that old Spencer had described his parents “Grand. There’s a word I really hate. It’s a phony. Could puke every time I heard it. ”(9). This affects holden because of how many schools holden has failed from each school and gone to the next one He is very used to being isolated and often used to be a rich like society in which people talk highly of each other. Another reason for his attitude was that he was around snobby people at Pencey Prep.
At the beginning of the book, Holden talks about how his school. He specifically talks about how the school is advertised, “They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing always showing some hot shot guy on a horse over a fence” he shows a major distaste for the people attending and thought a few people were “clear-thinking” at Pencey. After he leaves his school he gooses to New York thinking it would be better.
He soon to discover that his life of being in a high class was a lot better than being out on his own constantly having to try and deal with the problems that plague society.
He learns this when a prostitute was invited to his room, he gets unconformable and states, “I said I’d pay for you coming and all…I have plenty of dough” he refused to pay the price that was being told and later gets mugged for it “…I awreddy got it…See? All I’m taken’ is the five you owe me. I’m no crook,” This shows how Holden the major difference between his school living, When he decided to go out into the world, he discovers that an example of this is when he is out in New York and happened to invite a prostitute over to get it on. He soon gets uncomfortable, refuses, and only pays her 5 dollars. He refused to pay anymore because he had been scammed because the person who told the pricing said it was five. He later hit for refusing to give another five and forced it out of his wallet. He acted cocky and didn’t think about his
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