HOLHOLDEN CAULFIELD PSYCHOLOGY Holden Caulfield is a seventeen-year old teenager from a privileged family. He is the protagonist of “The Catcher in the Rye” written by J.D. Salinger. Throughout the book‚ Holden’s attitude will remain the same‚ disappointed and uncomfortable in this world‚ although he can be very sensitive. He faces a lot of struggles that will make his future difficult and maybe‚ unrealizable. His attitude will be misunderstood by the reader. Some will talk about
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Holden Caulfield Medical Diagnosis Holden Caulfield Medical Diagnosis Dear Mister and Misses Caulfield‚ my name is Dr: Connor Grist and I have been mister Holden Caulfield’s psychologist over the past couple weeks. Asking him about his life story and what he has gone through. Through his explanation of his life story‚ I was able to uncover 3 key behavioral characteristics that I believe he suffers from. Through my research‚ I believe that he suffers he uses profanity laced vocabulary and abusive
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author. Holden notes that when he finishes a book‚ “You wish the author was a good friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it‚” and while Holden seeks an author who will empathize with him‚ Salinger rejects that very notion (Salinger 6). Even though Salinger despises the assumed connection between the novel and its author‚ in analyzing The Catcher in the Rye‚ hints of Salinger’s attitudes and experiences are seen throughout the development of Holden Caulfield
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main character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ is a 16 year old troubled boy who is trying to find his own identity and his purpose in the world. Along the way‚ Holden shows many increasing signs of an emotional/ psychological breakdown throughout the book. Holden shows symptoms of an incoming emotional/ psychological breakdown from thoughts of suicide and death. For instance‚ when Holden was alone in a hotel lobby‚ he felt “Depressed and all. [He] almost wished [he] was dead” (90). Holden is a very sad and
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The Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ is home to the protagonist Holden Caulfield. There is no coincidence that he holds a striking resemblance to the author of the novel himself. Both Salinger and Holden have many aspects of their life in common. Holden’s story in The Catcher in the Rye begins with Holden at his school‚ Pencey Preparatory‚ which is a boarding school. He was sent there by his parents‚ who seemed to be withdrawn from his life. Similarly‚ Salinger’s parents sent him to Valley
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novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ the theme of isolation is exemplified through Holden Caulfield’s relationship with others‚ distance from reality‚ and his own identity. Throughout the novel‚ Holden experiences isolation in various ways. One of the main ways in which he experiences isolation is from others and society. Holden constantly separates himself from others in order to protect himself from their phony ways. Holden
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enlightenment to those around them. Aristotle defines the tragic hero as someone who has noble goals and ideas who is unable to achieve their goals due to their own flaws. There are many examples of tragic heroism in Holden Caulfield‚ the main character of The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Holden has several goals throughout the course of the novel but his progress is often interrupted by his hypocrisy‚ immaturity and his inability to see the beauty or meaning of life. Examples of Holden’s
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------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Search Options Bottom of Form * Home * Contact Us * Access old SpringerLink Sign up / Log in English Academic edition Attention‚ Perception‚ & Psychophysics© The Author(s) 201210.3758/s13414-012-0397-6 The perceived onset position of a moving target: Effects of trial contexts are evoked by different attentional allocations Jochen Müsseler1‚ 2 and Jens Tiggelbeck1 (1) RWTH Aachen University‚ Aachen‚
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main character Holden Caulfield. Many Americans in the mid 1900’s saw Holden as a corrupt and disturbed person. “He is a drifter‚ a wanderer‚ an adventurer who seeks not adventure but smut and the negative satisfaction of a negative rebellion” (Moore 34). However‚ this is not necessarily a valid statement. In some lights‚ Holden’s surface character comes across in an unfavorable fashion. Nonetheless‚ when his life and personality are dissected‚ it becomes evident that
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“You felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road”; Diagnosing Holden with PTSD in Catcher in the Rye Lexie He lived everyday not knowing when his little brother’s time was going to come. He knew it was soon‚ but just not that soon. Holden Caulfield‚ the protagonist in “The Catcher in the Rye”‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ seemed to have an ordinary life‚ until he watched his little brother‚ Allie‚ suffer from Leukemia. This traumatic event heavily affected Holden’s life. Most people that
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