Pressure to be normal during teenage and early adult life in addition to tragic childhoods cause Ben and Holden to develop depression and other psychological issues. Some common signs of depression found in Ben and Holden are, mood signs; anxiety, general discontent, guilt, hopelessness, loss of interest, loss of interest or pleasure in activities, behavioral; agitation, irritability, or social isolation. Most of these traits are found in either Ben, Holden or both. Holden throughout the book showed signs of depression by his guilt from Allie’s death, general discontent to other people and the world and not caring about his future. Then his behavioral signs are social isolation and irritability, he thinks everyone thinks weirdly of him. These
