The Catcher In The Rye Grief Analysis

There are about 7 different stages of grief. These are guilt, depression, denial and throughout time acceptance will come. You can see different stages of grief in The Catcher in the rye more specifically, Holden. Three stages are seen more as holden through the process of accepting his loss. In this story, The Catcher in The Rye, holden goes through many stages of grief which are Anger, Denial depression, after the his brother Allie passed away. 2 stages such as anger and denial.
The most important memory Holden has shared was when he decided to sleep in his garage to cope with his brother’s death and and it is written that he goes crazy in there breaking the garage’s windows. "I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddamn windows with my fist, just for the hell of it it was very stupid I have to admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it, and you didn't know Allie
Sarah Cifelli said Holden’s denial of his brother’s death leads him to take action in the garage and he doesn’t admit it whenever people asked what happened. Even though both of the stages of anger and denial are shown pretty clearly, the most important stage is actually denial. A good example of that would be Holden not admitting why he broke the windows in the garage in the first place. The main point is he did not admit the reason for breaking them shows that Holden still believes that Allie might still be alive which is why Holden broke all the windows.
Another memory Holden tells us is in the novel the Catcher in the Rye, the stage of denial and depression are shown as he tries to keep both his innocence and relationship with his brother. Holden Caulfield wants to be the "Catcher in the Rye". In other words, he wants to catch all the children who are falling off a cliff into adulthood. Both of the stages are shown together as Holden "catches" everyone from losing their