The Catcher In The Rye Depression Analysis

Depression is a serious problem. It affects millions of people each year. IT causes one to feel hopeless or that they do not belong. It also contributes to anger and hostility towards others. It even causes one to withdraw from friends and family. The Catcher in the Rye, focuses on Holden Catcher. The book talks about what Holden did after he was kicked out of high school for having bad grades. Underneath all the problems he was dealing with the underlying cause was depression. Throughout the story Holden showed many signs of depression which ultimately was the cause of why he ended up in a mental hospital. The start of Holden's depression could be noticed by his grades. When someone is depressed they start to lose interest in almost everything
He left school and did not even bother to tell them where he was going. The only exception to that was his sister, she was the only person that he really cared about. He went to such lengths to stay away from his parents that he snuck into his own house just to talk to his sister, and later snuck out Towards the end of the book Holden becomes increasingly unstable. He was at his old middle school which his sister went to. Then he saw one thing that made him made. He saw a vulgar two word phrase. When he saw this he thought, what would happen in a little kid would see this and then go ask what it is. The thought of that made him furious. A little while later he was at a museum and he saw the two word phrase again. Holden could not stand that there was no decent place in the world left. Then after he left the museum he was walking but as he walked down each block he thought he would disappear before he got to the end. A mental breakdown like this is a clear sign of depression. If Holden lived in our time period, his depression would of been diagnosed. All the problems that he had could have been avoided and he would not of ended up in a mental