young man’s name is Holden Caulfield. The novel The Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D. Salinger‚ is about a troubled young soul trying to find himself. Depression‚ confusion‚ loneliness‚ isolation‚ and fear are what Holden is feeling through this book. These feelings are contributing to his offbeat behavior. Holden is a vigorous liar‚ but is curious. Holden is not sure what he wants in life. Holden feels alone after his younger brother‚ Allie‚ passes away. Allie was the only person Holden actually knew‚ so
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Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. A sixteen-year-old boy‚ Holden Caulfield‚ wanders around New York City after being expelled from his most recent school and encounters numerous people‚ particularly women‚ before going back to his family. Though Holden tries to surround himself with others‚ he never seems to be able to connect to them. Holden is constantly trying to surround himself with other people‚ but isn’t able to form real connections with anyone. Holden socializes with girls multiple times throughout
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. In chapter five Holden reveals some insight about the death of his brother when he says‚ “You’d have liked him. He was two years younger than I was‚ but he was about fifty times as intelligent. He was terrifically intelligent” (Salinger 43). A reader can tell that Holden is inadequate at expressing his feelings but nevertheless feels an urge to vocalize them. When his jock roommate Stradlater asks Holden to write his English assignment‚ Holden writes about Allie’s baseball old glove covered
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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is about a boy named Holden Caulfield and his struggle with life. Like any other teenager‚ he is simply looking for his place in the world. However‚ it is shown that Holden is no ordinary teenager for he displays many signs of depression. His depression seems to escalate throughout the novel. For example‚ many nights he has trouble sleeping‚ he also is quite the alcoholic and a heavy smoker‚ he doesnt feed his body with the proper nutrients and he talks of
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Rye. Although Salinger had made use of his time writing short stories that were sometimes published in the magazines‚ his novel was his first and only work to face such recognition. Perhaps it was because many found the main character‚ Holden Caulfield‚ so relatable‚ but it was probably Salinger himself who related most to the troubled teen. After all‚ they shared many similarities from where they grew up‚ to even failing schools. It was sometime after his experience in WWII when J.D Salinger actually
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throughout the novel in the character Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield is stuck in a grey area where he isn’t so much a child anymore but he’s also wouldn’t be classified as an adult. There are many ideas shown throughout this novel that distinguish and represent adolescence and throughout the novel Holden’s voice does work as an adolescent one. But a theme that sticks out the most to me in the novel is sexuality. Specific sexuality traits could easily define Holden as an adolescent and is frequently
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"Pudge" Halter in Looking For Alaska‚ was based largely off of Holden Caulfield‚ the main character in Catcher in the Rye. In reading the two books‚ this statement becomes less and less difficult to believe as we see ignorance‚ rebellion against authority‚ death‚ isolation‚ and eventually maturity‚ and self-reassurance as underlying subject matters in both coming of age novels. Almost immediately‚ we see immaturity in both Miles‚ and Holden in something as discernible as each of their voices. It doesn’t
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in first person point of view by Holden Caulfield. Holden Caulfield is a student at Pencey Prep. Holden had failed all but one of his classes and has received a letter saying he is being kicked out.Holden shares a dorm with a kid named Stradlater‚ and has a next-door-mate named Ackley. Holden’s roommate goes on a date with a girl named Jane‚ who holden dated earlier and still likes. Holden questions Stradlater when he comes back. Stradlater makes fun of Holden‚ and tells him he gave her the time
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consistent within both J.B Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” and Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” and is demonstrated through linguistic and literary techniques. In “The Catcher in the Rye” I have chosen the last three pages of Chapter 24 where Holden Caulfield‚ the protagonist‚ is spending the night sleeping on his previous teacher’s couch. The Huckleberry Finn extract I have chosen occurs in the beginning of Chapter 4. Huckleberry Finn has been kidnapped by his father and is now trapped in a cabin
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In literature as in life‚ people struggle with principles or beliefs they hold. In Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger we follow Holden Caulfield who is a college student who is afraid of becoming an adult. Those who are adults are considered “phonies” to him. Holden is a very closed in type character who can only stand a few people. Holden lost his brother when he was a child. This causes him not to want to lose his innocence. This in turn makes it so he has a problem with the world. This forces
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