Holden Caulfield Moral

This story is about a 16 year old struggling, and mentally unstable boy named Holden Caulfield. The story is told from Holden’s own perspective. Holden has just received a letter stating that he is being expelled from his school, Pencey Prep for failing four out of five of his classes. This was going to be the fourth school that he was being expelled for failing. As a result of getting kicked out of school, Holden,decides to go to Manhattan for a early Christmas break. Along the way, he meets different kinds of people, and goes to different places. Holden met a lot of people and who he believed to be “phony”. He believes everyone he comes into contact is superficial. He also believes that it is easy to manipulate by lieing. When he describes his classmates or anyone he knows, he always have something negative to say about them. Holden always sees the ugliness in everyone, but not himself. Holden seems to get along with children, mainly his sister, Phoebe. He advises her she needs to stay in school and do well and not go down his destructive path. However, Life seemed to stop for Holden at the age of 13 on July 18 when his brother, Allie died from Leukemia. He became rebellious and had uncontrollable anger, feeling as if he was guilty of his brothers death. …show more content…
One day Holden and Phoebe were talking and he told her he wants to be the catcher and the rye, he wants to save children and keep them innocent and pure from this dark and evil world.As a result of this,