Holden's Life In 'Rebel Without A Cause'

The handout; “Rebel Without a Cause”, had some information about adolescents’ poor adjustments to reality in the 1950s that relates to Holden’s life in the novel. For instance, the handout mentions that “middle-class women who remained homemakers in the 1950s often expressed unhappiness at the insignificance of their lives”. This relates to Holden’s life because he often expresses the unhappiness of his life throughout chapters one to seven. For one, he absolutely hates phonies that he was surrounded with. For instance, he briefly mentions “one of the biggest reasons [he] left Elkton Hills was because [he] was surrounded by phonies... [He] can’t stand that stuff. It drives him crazy. It makes [him] so depressed [that he’d] go crazy. [He} hated