“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts” (Winston Churchill). Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old who has few interests and went to Pencey Prep. He has been kicked out and now has to face the real world and struggles to connect with other people. In the novel Catcher in the Rye, author J.D. Salinger reveals how people in a society handle stress and breaking down from failure through the motif of Holden’s loneliness, the symbol of the museum, and the allegory of the Catcher in the Rye. To begin with, Holden Isn't the most outgoing or popular person as a result, he is alone, isolated from his family and community. “...I was crying and all. I don't know why, but I was. I guess it was because
