The Catcher In The Rye: Adulthood, The Devil
Selina Weng
Mrs. Maggert
Honors English
7 November 2016
Adulthood, the Devil In J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, the reader follows the main character, Holden Caulfield, a mentally unstable, idealist teenage boy seeking for satisfaction in a “phony” society. Differ from the typical teenage boy at his age, Holden’s biggest struggle is growing up. Throughout his school life, he had been kicked out from four different schools, and he also finds difficult to connect himself with the people around him, whether is the teacher or the classmate. Holden considered most the people are phony. Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional. Holden chooses to hide behind the mask of maturity and hold on to his childhood because for holden growing up represents losing innocence, leaving without closure, and becoming phony. Deep in Holden’s heart, he doesn’t want children to grow up because he feels that adults are putrescent. Holden met a prostitute on the night he stayed at the hotel. She was around Holden’s age, she was quiet and …show more content…
According to Holden’s description about Allie, he was the most intelligent person people Holden had ever met in his life. Everyone liked Allie, and he would always get good notes from teachers, saying what a good student he is. Allie died at age eleven because he got leukemia. Allie’s death became Holden’s biggest pain in his life because he never got a chance to say goodbye to Allie. Holden was being hospitalized at the night of Allie’s death; therefore, he wasn’t able to attend the Allie’s funeral. Holden states, “What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by” (Salinger 7). On the day he left Pencey, he was standing by the cannon and didn’t want to leave because wants to look for someone that actually care about him and willing to say goodbye to him. Sadly, he never got a closure from the place he left and
Mrs. Maggert
Honors English
7 November 2016
Adulthood, the Devil In J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, the reader follows the main character, Holden Caulfield, a mentally unstable, idealist teenage boy seeking for satisfaction in a “phony” society. Differ from the typical teenage boy at his age, Holden’s biggest struggle is growing up. Throughout his school life, he had been kicked out from four different schools, and he also finds difficult to connect himself with the people around him, whether is the teacher or the classmate. Holden considered most the people are phony. Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional. Holden chooses to hide behind the mask of maturity and hold on to his childhood because for holden growing up represents losing innocence, leaving without closure, and becoming phony. Deep in Holden’s heart, he doesn’t want children to grow up because he feels that adults are putrescent. Holden met a prostitute on the night he stayed at the hotel. She was around Holden’s age, she was quiet and …show more content…
According to Holden’s description about Allie, he was the most intelligent person people Holden had ever met in his life. Everyone liked Allie, and he would always get good notes from teachers, saying what a good student he is. Allie died at age eleven because he got leukemia. Allie’s death became Holden’s biggest pain in his life because he never got a chance to say goodbye to Allie. Holden was being hospitalized at the night of Allie’s death; therefore, he wasn’t able to attend the Allie’s funeral. Holden states, “What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by” (Salinger 7). On the day he left Pencey, he was standing by the cannon and didn’t want to leave because wants to look for someone that actually care about him and willing to say goodbye to him. Sadly, he never got a closure from the place he left and