Profile: Holden Caulfield Part One: The patient is Holden Caulfield‚ a sixteen-year-old teenage boy. Caulfield’s appearance is tall for his age and surprisingly has quite a few gray hairs at the age of sixteen. Holden comes from an upper-middle class family. His family has enough money to support Holden with many luxuries including skates and expensive suitcases. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. Caulfield aren’t there to talk‚ care‚ and be there for Holden‚ which seems to drive Holden away from
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portrayal of teenagers and how they act. There are plenty of characteristic on how he properly conveyed this to the audience and he also spread these characteristics through-out all of the characters that are used within the novel. Firstly‚ you have Holden; a teenager who is not always the brightest bulb in the cabinet‚ but he has a clear understanding on how the world works and yet he ironically does not have the brains to execute this knowledge directly into the world. Secondly‚ you have Stradlater;
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young‚ clever‚ sympathetic‚ and likable‚ and Holden respects him. Holden sometimes finds him a bit too clever‚ but he looks to him for guidance. Like many characters in the novel‚ he drinks heavily. Read an in-depth analysis of Mr. Antolini. Maurice - The elevator operator at the Edmont Hotel‚ who procures a prostitute for Holden. Sunny - The prostitute whom Holden hires through Maurice. She is one of a number of women in the book with whom Holden clumsily attempts to connect. D. B. Caulfield
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J.D. Salinger‚ is a novel in which the author creates much irony in the way he presents the loss of innocence or the fall from innocence in his main character‚ Holden Caulfield. While Holden clearly believes in protecting the innocence of children in society‚ he himself cannot seem to hang onto his own innocence. Throughout the novel Holden shows his love and protection for childhood innocence‚ the irony that he in fact himself may be losing his own childhood innocence mainly due to the responsibilities
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coming of age novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ follows mental institute patient Holden Caulfield as he narrates his experiences and struggles in a world full of what he likes to call‚ “phonies” (13). Throughout the novel‚ Holden oscillates between childhood and adulthood as he desires to be “the catcher in the rye”: he hopes to “catch all the children that “start to go over the cliff” and preserve their innocence (173). As Holden remains stagnant in his transition into adulthood‚ he never properly contends
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are there. The question most people ask is how to get out of the funk‚ they ask themselves how they got this way. In The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden attempts to answer these questions by escaping his everyday life. Moreover‚ in Of Mice and Men George tries to find were he fits in as he accompanies his mentally challenged friend through his life. Both Holden and George attempt to find themselves by neglecting to continue their average day-to-day‚ routine based lives. In Of Mice and Men‚ Steinbeck
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novel because of the negative status it has with parents‚ teachers‚ and school. I wanted to discover what the roots of this controversy are. The main character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ tells about his life before and after he was kicked out from Pencey Prep. The novel was told in first person through the eyes of the narrator‚ Holden. He recalls the events as a series of flashbacks placing the setting of the story in his mind. I was bored by the novel‚ but dutifully finished reading it anyway
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Unlike Holden‚ Kristina failed in more than one way; it started when she took her first snort of Methamphetamine. Before she took her visit to her dad’s house‚ she received mostly A’s‚ “Straight A’s‚ huh? Got your brains/ from your old man” (Hopkins 24). Kristina
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love‚ you die too‚ and you wait around for your body to catch up.” John Scalzi. This quote relates back to Catcher in the Rye because after Holden loses his brother Allie‚ he dies a little bit inside and like the quote says‚ he is waiting for his body to catch up to death of his brother Allie. The story takes place in Manhattan and is about a young boy named Holden Caulfield‚ it is about the learning experience that takes place and how an immature child tried to come to terms with multiple problems.
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It is evident that J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is a tale that remains just as relevant in today’s society as it was in the 1950’s. The novel’s primary character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ displays similarities that correlate so pertinently to the youth of today‚ such as his contemptuous opinions of individuals‚ his hedonistic take on life‚ and his overpowering desire to defy authority – which is‚ primarily in his case‚ education. Thus‚ it may seem strange to attribute the theme of innocence
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