Catcher In The Rye Why Does Holden Lie

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According to Tony A. Jaskins Jr, “If you don’t understand it fully, don’t speak on it. Too many people have full opinions, with half the facts.” In the book Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, a boy named Holden Caulfield is telling his story from a mental hospital to put it simply Holden is struggling. He lies so much to cover up who he really is, a kid that’s angry and depressed about his brother Allie’s death. In the book Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jay Gatsby is the guy with the huge house on the West Egg who throws extravagant parties every weekend. He lies about how he was a German spy during the war and that how he’s a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm's, he lies so that the girl he loves Daisy Buchanan will fall for him. Holden

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