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    Catcher In The Rye: Holden Caufield Holden Caufield was a high school student at a boy’s academy by the name of Pency Prep. He feels as though he had fought the world and lost‚ everyone is against him and that little can bring him joy. He had lost his innocence‚ and saw himself as a "catcher in the rye"‚ trying to save children from his fate. Holden is quite the eccentric individual. I say this because of the incident with Sally Hayes where he proclaims his love for her and how they should

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    Psychoanalysis of Holden Caulifield Through life we all experience events both physically and emotionally destructive causing us to feel down‚ but most of us bounce back. These feelings are a part of life. Holden Caulifield comes off as a controlled‚ passive‚ typical teenager. As the story progress we learn he is far from it. Holden’s actions‚ thought process‚ his outlook on life and the way he grieves all suggest that he is suffering post traumatic stressed syndrome better known as PTSD. PTSD

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    A Cheap Ol’ Red Hat Holden Caulfield has a dominating dilemma throughout The Catcher in the Rye‚ his need for companionship and his longing for isolation. Adding to this confusion‚ he is caught between wanting to preserve the innocence of a child and wanting the independence of an adult. A cheap and simple red hunting hat‚ with no significance to anyone else but him‚ is the symbol for these conflicts. The hat is inseparable from J.D. Salinger’s portrait of Holden for a good reason: it is a symbol

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    How does Holden Caulfield see himself as ‘The Catcher in the Rye’? Most teenagers are rebels because they do not know how to deal with the transition from childhood innocence to adult corruption. This is a recurrent behavior displayed by the protagonist in J.D. Salinger’s‚ ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ – Holden Caulfield. The book maps the three impactful days that played a pivotal role in his life. During this time frame‚ Holden got thrown out of school‚ ran away from his school before he was scheduled

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    Holden observe that his surrounding is full of crooks. Holden Caulfield has failed out three other prep schools before his parents enroll him to Pencey. The first chapter takes place during the last day of Holden in Pencey. He decided to leave school before the official end of the term. Holden go to Pencey in order to finish his school‚ but eventually he still failing his entire subject due to the lack of interest in an academic’s topic. He believes‚" Pencey do not do any more molding in school."

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    Holden is an angry‚ vulnerable child who can’t grow up.” Discuss Holden Caulfield‚ the protagonist from J.D Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” is a character who has been thoroughly discussed ever since the novel’s publication. Holden’s obsession with thinking about people’s attitudes‚ especially towards him‚ causes him to be critical towards his teachers‚ school peers and even towards people he just met. Holden’s parents are determined to make their son grow up and be successful by persisting

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    May 7 2012 Phoebe Caulfield : The True Catcher in the Rye Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye reveals a teenager’s dramatic struggle against death and growing up. The book is composed of stories after the protagonist Holden Caulfield’s expulsion from a private school. He leaves school early to explore New York before returning home‚ interacting with teachers‚ prostitutes‚ nuns‚ an ex-girlfriend and his sister along the way. We characterize Holden as an innocent child that possesses an ideal fantasy

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    Holden and Society J. D. Salinger’s notable and esteemed novel‚ Catcher in the Rye‚ reflects the hypercritical views of a troubled teenager‚ Holden Caulfield‚ towards everyone around him and society itself. This character has a distinguished vision of a world where morality‚ principles‚ intelligence‚ purity‚ and naivety should override money‚ sex‚ and power‚ but clearly in the world he inhabits these qualities have been exiled. Holder desperately clings to and regards innocence as one of the most

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    the main character‚ Holden Caulfield’s apparent madness and irrational behavior plays an important role. The decisions that Holden makes at the time seem un-normal and irrational to characters in the novel‚ but to the reader they seem wise and reasonable. One example of this behavior is the way Holden treats women. Throughout the novel he has the temptation to be with women‚ but he can resist his urges. He doesn’t want to be with a girl‚ just to be with a girl‚ Caulfield actually wants it to

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    is the tendency people have to judge one another. The narrator‚ Holden Caulfield‚ is not only judgmental of the people he meets‚ but of society as a whole. Throughout his experiences‚ he criticizes the phoniness and shallowness that he encounters in the world around him. One sees‚ that while Holden spends much of his time judging the actions and intentions of others‚ he never recognizes his own faults. Throughout the novel‚ Holden runs into both old and new faces. He almost instantly begins to criticize

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