Literary Analysis Essay contrasting Into the Wild and Catcher in the Rye with phoniness of the adult world
When someone is thinking of the idea of phoniness, they might recall something like diamonds, teenagers antics, or TV shows. However, in Into the Wild and Catcher in the Rye, the two main characters Chris McCandless and Holden Caulfield think of adulthood and adult society as phony and constantly criticize it. Even though they both try to move away and not experience adulthood, responsibilities, and society Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye more clearly projects Phoniness in the adult world because of Chris’s lack of human interaction throughout Into the Wild. Holdens experiences of being alone in a large city, his negative mindset, …show more content…
Because Holden Caufield is obsessed with identifying and pointing out random things as phony and goes into detail about it, he portrays just how frequent phoniness is in the adult world. In chapter six while Holden is at a train station he states “‘You know, one of those stories with a lot of phony, lean-jawed guys named David and a lot of phony girls named Linda or Maria that are always lighting all the goddamn David’s pipes for them’”(Salinger 29). Holden finds something that is phony in almost every single chapter and manages to find phoniness in everyday life and even points out the little things he finds fake. How frequently Holden finds phoniness everywhere in the adult world shows how many people are fake. In contrast, Into the Wild shows that Chris McCandless has a quite different opinion of the people he meets in his adventures. Chris wrote many thoughtful letters to the people that helped him throughout his journey. In a letter to Wayne Westerburg Chris writes “If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again, I want you to know you’re a great man” and later to Jane and Bob Burres he inscribed “Take care, it was great knowing you” (Krakauer 69). Chris McCandless was almost the opposite of Holden Caufield when he interacted with people as well as when he wrote his letters. Krakauer was convinced that Chris had great interactions with the people he met, that's why he didn’t write about many negative aspects of society when he told the story of Chris and his adventures. Nevertheless, there were a few negative aspects where Chris didn’t approve of the adult world and society, one of which was school. For example, when Chris thought a rule was stupid “...and decided to ignore it. He did his lab reports, but not in the
When someone is thinking of the idea of phoniness, they might recall something like diamonds, teenagers antics, or TV shows. However, in Into the Wild and Catcher in the Rye, the two main characters Chris McCandless and Holden Caulfield think of adulthood and adult society as phony and constantly criticize it. Even though they both try to move away and not experience adulthood, responsibilities, and society Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye more clearly projects Phoniness in the adult world because of Chris’s lack of human interaction throughout Into the Wild. Holdens experiences of being alone in a large city, his negative mindset, …show more content…
Because Holden Caufield is obsessed with identifying and pointing out random things as phony and goes into detail about it, he portrays just how frequent phoniness is in the adult world. In chapter six while Holden is at a train station he states “‘You know, one of those stories with a lot of phony, lean-jawed guys named David and a lot of phony girls named Linda or Maria that are always lighting all the goddamn David’s pipes for them’”(Salinger 29). Holden finds something that is phony in almost every single chapter and manages to find phoniness in everyday life and even points out the little things he finds fake. How frequently Holden finds phoniness everywhere in the adult world shows how many people are fake. In contrast, Into the Wild shows that Chris McCandless has a quite different opinion of the people he meets in his adventures. Chris wrote many thoughtful letters to the people that helped him throughout his journey. In a letter to Wayne Westerburg Chris writes “If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again, I want you to know you’re a great man” and later to Jane and Bob Burres he inscribed “Take care, it was great knowing you” (Krakauer 69). Chris McCandless was almost the opposite of Holden Caufield when he interacted with people as well as when he wrote his letters. Krakauer was convinced that Chris had great interactions with the people he met, that's why he didn’t write about many negative aspects of society when he told the story of Chris and his adventures. Nevertheless, there were a few negative aspects where Chris didn’t approve of the adult world and society, one of which was school. For example, when Chris thought a rule was stupid “...and decided to ignore it. He did his lab reports, but not in the