Amenda Brenich
Ms.Maggeart-
English III Honors
3 November 2016
Holden's Grieving Process Holden a teenage boy who feels as if everyone around him just doesn't care and is a phony. He wanders around New York City trying to find something that can close that hole he has in his hear. Throughout the book he shows signs of grieve but doesn’t realize it, and blames everyone else but himself. Holden grieves after losing his brother however he struggles to find closure and is stuck in the anger, denial, and depression, stages of the grieving process.
In J.D Salinger’s novel the Catcher in the Rye Holden says “I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage”(44). Holden …show more content…
He keeps asking Allie “Allie don't let me disappear don't let me disappear. Please Allie” (218). Holden is still holding trying to hold on to his innocence innocent and refuses to become an adult. He acts very immature, almost childish, and is afraid of change. He already had to go through a big change in his life, once his brother died and is afraid something tragical or major might happen again. “I completely forgot I was going to shack up in a hotel for a couple of days and not go home till vacation started” (67). He refuses to go home even though he really wants to, instead he decided to get a hotel and makes a lot of bad decisions. Getting a hotel makes him believes that being on his own makes him more of an adult. Even though he contemplates many times if he should go home, which he doesn’t but leaves right when his parents come home because he know they will be disappointed in him for getting kicked out of other school again.
Holden's detachment from society is a major cause of his depression. Holden feels depressed when people do things he considers phony. If it doesn’t live up to his expectations or what he thinks is right he considers it phony. Once he starts thinking about how phony people are it makes him depressed which is mostly throughout the whole book. Holden’s depression leads to suicidal thoughts and loneliness. “I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden I almost wished I was
Ms.Maggeart-
English III Honors
3 November 2016
Holden's Grieving Process Holden a teenage boy who feels as if everyone around him just doesn't care and is a phony. He wanders around New York City trying to find something that can close that hole he has in his hear. Throughout the book he shows signs of grieve but doesn’t realize it, and blames everyone else but himself. Holden grieves after losing his brother however he struggles to find closure and is stuck in the anger, denial, and depression, stages of the grieving process.
In J.D Salinger’s novel the Catcher in the Rye Holden says “I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage”(44). Holden …show more content…
He keeps asking Allie “Allie don't let me disappear don't let me disappear. Please Allie” (218). Holden is still holding trying to hold on to his innocence innocent and refuses to become an adult. He acts very immature, almost childish, and is afraid of change. He already had to go through a big change in his life, once his brother died and is afraid something tragical or major might happen again. “I completely forgot I was going to shack up in a hotel for a couple of days and not go home till vacation started” (67). He refuses to go home even though he really wants to, instead he decided to get a hotel and makes a lot of bad decisions. Getting a hotel makes him believes that being on his own makes him more of an adult. Even though he contemplates many times if he should go home, which he doesn’t but leaves right when his parents come home because he know they will be disappointed in him for getting kicked out of other school again.
Holden's detachment from society is a major cause of his depression. Holden feels depressed when people do things he considers phony. If it doesn’t live up to his expectations or what he thinks is right he considers it phony. Once he starts thinking about how phony people are it makes him depressed which is mostly throughout the whole book. Holden’s depression leads to suicidal thoughts and loneliness. “I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden I almost wished I was