Cynicism In Catcher In The Rye Essay

Problems of an Over cynicism teenager What’s wrong with Holden Caulfield? The protagonist in the book The Catcher in The Rye A boy with the personality of extremely cynicism. A seventeen years old boy that was been depressed by his brother’s death, which means he is unable to face and accept his brother’s death, this is shown when he sleep in the garage and break all the windows, he lies a lot, he can not open up to anyone which make him a pathological liar, and he’s afraid to confronting things just like how he can’t confronting his brother’s death. Holden’s brother Allie, which is been killed by leukemia, his death make Holden always depressed and lonely. Allie’s death has torture Holden for several …show more content…
The following quote mainly explains what does Holden thought about when someone stole his gloves “ I’d rather push a guy out the window or chop his head off with an ax than sock him in the jaw.’’ Holden always think some super violent scene in his mind, but he just never actually do it in real life. Mature people stand for himself, intelligently solve the problem, without any violent; immature people afraid to stand for himself, and they solve problems violently, or just think some violent scene in their mind. It also reinforce Holden’s personalities of immature. Also reinforce his personality of phony, even though he is unwilling to accept the truth that his glove has been stolen, and he’s eagerly want to stand for himself, but he was just afraid of confronting with the problem, just like how he was afraid to confronting and accepting his brother Allie’s death. Finally Holden Caulfield a seventeen years old boy, an over cynicism protagonist in the non- fiction book called The Catcher in the rye. Who is unable to confronting and accepting his brother’s death, he had suffered under that pain for several years. His brother’s death caused him express his feeling in a violent way, a pathological liar, and afraid to confronting