“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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D Salinger. The protagonist; Holden Caulfield becomes seriously depressed to the point where he cannot deal with people and every day life around him. The author describes Holden as a person that does not care about where he goes with his life‚ but the one thing that gets in his way is depression‚ which causes him to be stressed and have a lot of issues. Plot/conflict‚ and character analysis are two literary elements to support this. J.D Salinger describes Holden as mentally unstable‚ lonely‚
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Catcher in the Rye thought Holden Caulfield was insane. In the story “Catcher in the Rye” by‚ J.D. Salinger‚ Holden was a 16 year old boy who kept being sent to different boarding schools. He had gotten kicked out of a few‚ before wanting to run away and not go back to the schools. His reason for being kicked out is because everyone in his schools were phony and he did not like it. Holden and society are a misfit‚ but Holden is the problem in this story. One example‚ Holden does not think before he
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main character in this book‚ Holden Caulfield‚ is a young boy growing up in the 1950s‚ and is still trying to figure out his place in the world. Throughout the book‚ Holden is shown to aspire to be an adult‚ because he feels that adults do not have problems. These physical wants are only held back by the child-like tendencies he keeps holding on to‚ and they prevent him from growing up how he wants to‚ falling somewhere in the middle‚ the self he is during the book. Holden finds that even though he
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written by J.D. Salinger. Taken place in New York City. The main character‚ known as Holden Caulfield‚ tries to discover the meaning of life and goes through many obstacles. In his tone throughout the story‚ he narrates and describes how certain people have an affect on him‚ also what they mean to him. As Holden Caulfield narrates the story‚ each character is given specialized details. What Holden sees in them‚ if they are phony or real. Symbolism is portrayed through the entire
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academic). Holden (our main character) begins to emotionally withdraw himself from society after the death of his beloved brother Allie. The Catcher in the Rye‚ written by J. D. Salinger‚ illustrates the themes of innocence‚ melancholy‚ and detachment from society. Using Holden Caulfield as an instrument in his master plan‚ Salinger sees that the common conflict is addressed as well as the need for companionship through a first-person narrative. Salinger paints the beginning picture with Holden‚ all alone
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Through out the story Holden is never in positive mind set‚ whenever some else is happy he or it look like something good might happen to Holden‚ he always seem to dampen the mood. For example Holden’s says‚ “After I shut the door and started back to the living room‚ he yelled something at me‚ but I couldn’t exactly hear him. I’m pretty sure he yelled "Good luck!" at me. I hope not. I hope to hell not. I’d never yell "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible‚ when you think about it”(Salinger?)
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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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Caroline Dillon 5/15/13 Mrs. Lynch Period 3 While reading The Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Claufield suffers from abnormal behavior. It’s safe to say that Holden doesn’t exactly act like a normal teenager does. Holden suffers from bipolar disorder. A mental illness which causes you to be depressed‚ feeling low and useless‚ as well as manic behavior that causes him to be sleepless‚ irrational‚ and act out with wild behavior. Bipolar disorder can be expressed as a manic-depressive illness. It is
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and a lack of guilt‚ shame and empathy. Sometimes‚ this illness is called psychopathy or sociopathy. Unfornately‚ Holden is a sociopath because he is deceitful‚ irresponsible and he lacks remorse for action that harm others.(56) Holden Caulfield is described as a really trouble six`teen-year-old boy who is telling a story about how he got expelled from Pencey Preparatory School. Holden is deceitful. Deceitfulness is defined as a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive or an intentional
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