In Jd Salinger’s award winning novel‚ Catcher In The Rye‚ Had many symbols that give this book its meaning. I’m going to tell you many symbols‚ and each and everyone one of them means something to the book greatly. One symbol that was shown was when he was at the museum of natural history. This symbol is childhood. Holden has a hard time with change‚ especially with young kids growing up. He wants them never to grow. The reason this is a symbol is‚ at the museum nothing changes. The displays are
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In the novels Catcher in the Rye‚ and Eleven Seconds‚ the main characters cope with society in very different methods. In Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield deals with society in an unusual way. When his brother Allie died‚ four years before his story‚ he decided to break windows with anger. Doctors observed this action physically and mentally. I think that the doctors help him cope with his feelings for Allie because they try to fix any problems he might have. Also‚ when he was expelled from
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In the novel The Catcher in the Rye‚ by J.D Salinger‚ the author characterizes Holden as immature in order to show that Holden is struggling to become an adult. This can be proven by Holden’s contradictory nature that appears throughout the book. Holden’s date with Sally is a big example of Holden’s immaturity. When Holden sees Sally after a long time‚ he says that he wanted to marry her right away‚ but this changes very quickly: “The funny part is I felt like marrying her the minute I saw her
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flowers on your stomach… Who wants flowers when you’re dead?”(Salinger 172). Holden Caulfield‚ the protagonist of the Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ begins his journey confused‚ alone and filled with regret. Holden regrets doing bad in school‚ not for his sake‚ but his parents. Holden regrets not seeing his sister‚ but most of all Holden regrets not saving his brother Allie from his untimely death of Leukemia. Holden feels he has a responsibility to save everyone because he failed to save his
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Caulfield’s Influence in The Catcher in the Rye Although not present throughout the majority of the novel The Catcher in the Rye‚ Phoebe Caulfield’s existence effects Holden Caulfield’s character and ultimately is significant to a larger theme in the novel by the effects she has on him. The novel typically tells a story that focuses on a major theme of the “phoniness” of the adult world and the painful process of growing older as displayed through the eyes of major character Holden Caulfield. Phoebe Caulfield
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society. The novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger is written in part to describes this type of depression through main character Holden Caulfield and is expounded as Holden isolates himself and shares personal sentiments on life and his relationships with people. The feeling of alienation and loneliness are some of the most prominent symptoms
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The Catcher in the Rye‚ a classical novel‚ embodies the effects of sibling rivalry‚ but instead of present-day‚ the novel portrays this in the 1950s. Holden Caulfield‚ the protagonist‚ was repelled by his brother‚ D.B.‚ because Holden thought that his brother was a fake‚ who worked in Hollywood‚ and ended up hating the peers in his school that were thought to be popular. Holden‚ in despise‚ referred to D.B.‚ “Now he’s out in Hollywood‚ D.B.‚ being a prostitute. If there’s one thing I hate‚ it’s the
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This is the diagnosis for Mr. Holden Caulfield. Mr. Caulfield is a sixteen year old‚ white‚ male‚ whos residence is in New York City‚ New York. He has brown/gray hair and is about 6 foot. Caulfield is in high school and was recently expelled from Pencey Prep. After analyzing Caulfield‚ I have come to determine that he has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD). Mr. Caulfield has multiple symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. After speaking with the patient and observing his actions‚ several
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replicates how precisely Holden views the world. Throughout the storyline of the “Catcher in the Rye‚” by JD Salinger‚ a seventeen year old boy named Holden has a different perspective on everyone he meets. Everyone Holden meets he thinks of them as a phonie. By him thinking that the entire society is fake‚ he starts to alienate and keeps pushing himself farther away from society to get away from all these so called “phonies.” He is longing to leave society and be on his own‚ but
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Sally Hayes is dim person whose phoniness blinds her from Holden ’s cries for help and dismisses him when he needs her most‚ her phoniness changes Holden and he himself is forced into bad decisions because of it. When Holden is waiting for Sally in the lobby of New York ’s Biltmore Hotel‚ the place is filled with girls his age‚ and he ’s watching them. "[I]t was sort of depressing" (123)‚ thinking about what ’s going to happen to most of the girls he sees. They ’re all going to have conventional
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