According to the reference dictionary, the definition of a dynamic character is, “Dynamic Character- noun: a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important innerchange, as a change in personality or attitude.” In the book The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger portrays a story about a kid named Holden Caulfield and shows the struggles that he goes through at Pency and in New York. Because of many affect that went through throughout his entire life, he goes into many internal and external conflicts that happen during the story. For most of the novel, Holden is thinking that he needs to save all children and their innocence, he does not exactly know where he is going midst his life, and Holden experiences neglect and is never supported
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At the beginning and middle of the book, Holden says that the children’s innocence is withdrawn from them. In the story Phoebe is talking to Holden and he says to her, “You know that song, If a body catch a body coming through the rye”... Then Phoebe says, “It if a body meets a body…” Later Holden claims, “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game… Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around- nobody big, I mean- except me. And I am standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What do I have to do, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them”(191). This quote show that Holden firmly believes that if kids are not caught falling off the cliff, or doing something wrong, he would have the feeling to save them. However Holden changes his feelings about saving innocence towards the end of the book. In the story, Holden was watching Phoebe while she was on the merry-go-round, and he said, “All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she’d fall of the goddam horse, but I say anything or do anything”(232). In the story, Holden showed us that he had changed midst the story because he went from saving every kid of their innocence, to letting the kids find out about the bad in the world. This show the children that they can pick themselves up if they are losing their
At the beginning and middle of the book, Holden says that the children’s innocence is withdrawn from them. In the story Phoebe is talking to Holden and he says to her, “You know that song, If a body catch a body coming through the rye”... Then Phoebe says, “It if a body meets a body…” Later Holden claims, “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game… Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around- nobody big, I mean- except me. And I am standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What do I have to do, I have to come out from somewhere and catch them”(191). This quote show that Holden firmly believes that if kids are not caught falling off the cliff, or doing something wrong, he would have the feeling to save them. However Holden changes his feelings about saving innocence towards the end of the book. In the story, Holden was watching Phoebe while she was on the merry-go-round, and he said, “All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she’d fall of the goddam horse, but I say anything or do anything”(232). In the story, Holden showed us that he had changed midst the story because he went from saving every kid of their innocence, to letting the kids find out about the bad in the world. This show the children that they can pick themselves up if they are losing their