Theme Of Grieving In Catcher In The Rye

The grieving process is something many people go through when they lose someone that was close to them and have to choose to overcome this feeling of sadness and depression or let it consume them. In “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D Salinger is a novel about a boy named Holden Caulfield that tells us the story of what has been happening in his life ever since his younger brother Allie died from leukemia three years ago. Throughout the book you see that he is still grieving over Allie, Holden absolutely adored everything about his brother and thought he was the most intelligent person in the world. Holden shows the typical signs of grieving by showing that he is angry, regretful, lonely, and depressed until he knows what he needs to do to make