Catcher in the Rye: Loneliness “It is in the more muddled moments of my life, that I become painfully aware of my issues. When nothing is going right, when life gets away from me. When I feel like life is living me, instead of me, living life. It’s a difficult place to be…” ~Jaeda Dewalt
Holden has had a troubled life based on the fact that his little brother died, everyone around him is living a double life, and he struggled to find his life purpose. In the novel Catcher in the Rye Holden struggles with loneliness.
Toward the beginning of the novel Holden opens up about a major event in his life that changed everything about how he is. He lost his little brother, and best friend Allie to Leukemia at the age of thirteen. Holden resents the …show more content…
Holden hate that and so he doesn’t open up to anyone at school, meaning he has no friends. “I can’t stand that stuff. It drives me crazy. It makes me so depressed, I go crazy.” (Lee 17) Another point is when Holden does start to open up he finds something depressing and puts himself into an isolated state to the point where he won’t talk to anyone about anything.
After a period of being lonely and not knowing what his life purpose is he finally learns that his life purpose is to be the catcher in the rye. He wants to save all of the innocent children that have gone through events that he has gone through. But he is still lonely because he doesn’t expect any gratitude or thanks for keeping the innocence alive in children. “That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye. I know it’s crazy.” (Lee 191)
Holden obviously is troubled but he also has a lot of insecurities about his life that he doesn’t like opening up about so he doesn’t have any friends or trustworthy people to talk to. Holden shows that e struggles with loneliness and he needs to overcome these problems and find someone who he can trust and bond
Holden has had a troubled life based on the fact that his little brother died, everyone around him is living a double life, and he struggled to find his life purpose. In the novel Catcher in the Rye Holden struggles with loneliness.
Toward the beginning of the novel Holden opens up about a major event in his life that changed everything about how he is. He lost his little brother, and best friend Allie to Leukemia at the age of thirteen. Holden resents the …show more content…
Holden hate that and so he doesn’t open up to anyone at school, meaning he has no friends. “I can’t stand that stuff. It drives me crazy. It makes me so depressed, I go crazy.” (Lee 17) Another point is when Holden does start to open up he finds something depressing and puts himself into an isolated state to the point where he won’t talk to anyone about anything.
After a period of being lonely and not knowing what his life purpose is he finally learns that his life purpose is to be the catcher in the rye. He wants to save all of the innocent children that have gone through events that he has gone through. But he is still lonely because he doesn’t expect any gratitude or thanks for keeping the innocence alive in children. “That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye. I know it’s crazy.” (Lee 191)
Holden obviously is troubled but he also has a lot of insecurities about his life that he doesn’t like opening up about so he doesn’t have any friends or trustworthy people to talk to. Holden shows that e struggles with loneliness and he needs to overcome these problems and find someone who he can trust and bond