Last Day of the Last Furlough

I mean if they 're running and they don 't look where they 're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That 's all I do all day. I 'd just be the catcher in the rye and all”(Salinger 173). Holden was determined to save every last child from experiencing a “fall.” The fall represents the loss of innocence. Holden desperately holds on to the last bit of innocence he has and wants everyone else to because Allie was innocent and he died before he lost it, therefore he wants to be…

Adolescence is a time fraught with the dangers of loneliness. In a person’s journey through this period it is therefore important to maintain strong relationships with other people. Holden Caulfield is a teenager who lets such relationships deteriorate in J.D. Salinger 's The Catcher in the Rye. The novel follows Holden as he leaves his school, travelling through New York City alone in a depressed funk. Ultimately, Salinger uses Holden’s language to illustrate the theme that an absence of close…

In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield, the protagonist spends the entire book constantly thinking of the loss of innocence and being disgusted by the idea of phonies that surround him in this world. Through all of the eccentric experiences Holden goes throughout the book these thoughts seem to overwhelm him and continue to be deeply fixated in the mind of Holden. These issues were very dear to Holden as his mind intensely looked at the subject whenever time and…

1. In most cases, the dynamic character of the novel is the protagonist. In this case, it is the same for this novel. Holden Caulfield is the main character of The Catcher in the Rye and he develops quite a lot throughout the novel. Most of these changes that he goes through are abstruse to realize at first glance but at further inspection, you realize that Holden matures a lot throughout the novel. Holden begins off as an eleventh grader in high school who attends Penecy Prep. He is then kicked…

Author Willa Cather in her short story, “Paul’s Case”, suggests that the main character Paul is unhappy with his lifestyle, and therefor he devotes himself towards living a life of luxury. She supports this by first showing Paul in his disciplinary meeting at school, then Paul goes to the theater, then he returns after the theater to the dullness and darkness of Cordelia Street. Cather’s purpose is to demonstrate that nothing good comes out of hoping for something that you don't have, and be…

Every child is warned of the “adult world” where all the magic and fairytales of their previous years disappears, where enjoyment is succeeded by exhaustion and monotony, where you have to pay taxes! During their youth, a considerable portion is dedicated to fortifying their emotions for their upcoming toils. However, what happens when life shatters this fantasy too early? Holden Caulfield from Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye and Franny Glass from his short stories, Franny and Zooey are two…

Often times humans will follow what their hearts want rather than thinking the situation through. In the novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” Holden Caulfield, a 16 year old boy, who failed out of Pencey Prep, tries to follow his heart to make everything perfect. Holden assumes that all children are innocent and perfect without noticing the truth. He tries to protect their innocence by following his heart to do good for all children, but always thinking about this shortly made him depressed and it…

During the play we see how Birling has no respect for people of a lower social standing and he does not feel that he is responsible for anyone but himself. “I can’t except any responsibility. If we were all responsible for everything that happened to everybody we’d had anything to do with, it would be very awkward” .The attitude Birling has which is shown here is very poor and shows how selfish he is towards anyone but himself. He seems not care what his actions do to other people’s lives and…

novel explores complex issues such as isolation, alienation, innocence, loss and identity. Holden tells his story from a rest home, where he spends his days after getting tuberculosis. A psychoanalyst encourages him to write about the events which led him to getting tuberculosis, and so “The Catcher in the Rye” is born. Holden spends three days just before Christmas roaming around in New York city, drinking and smoking a lot, and with no winter coat. Combined with his intense emotional…

Literary critic James Lundquist refers to Holden from The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, as “the lunatic in the tombs” (J.D. Salinger, 42). This assessment implies that Holden is similar to the man from the Bible who was afflicted with demons, and correctly identifies Holden as a man who has to face his own inner demons. However, these demons manifest themselves to Holden as a part of his personality. Throughout the novel, his persistent attachment to his dead brother Allie and…