The death of his brother Allie has had a deleterious effect on Holden’s life. For example, when Holden was walking down the street he would say, “Every time I’d get to the end of a block I’d make believe I was talking to my brother Allie. I’d say to him, ‘Allie, don’t let me disappear. Allie, don’t let me disappear. Allie, don’t let me disappear.…
In J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, almost everything Holden encounters he refers to as phony. He does not like anything fake, especially when people act like something they are really not. Holden is so confused about the phoniness that he fails to realize that he himself is just as guilty of being phony as everyone else around him. Holden desires someone to care about, but his constant lookout for phoniness in people makes it hard for him to make any sort of connection. In a world of so much confusion and loneliness, all Holden wants in his life is a connection with someone who cares about him as much as he has the potential to care about them, however he cannot seem to find it through all the phoniness he perceives in the world, even though he is just as phony as the people surrounding him.…
Holden Caulfield is a 16 year old boy, who is can be childish at times and skeptical of the world around him, however, this is because of his hard and troubling past that lead him to become who he is now. Holden has a unique way of looking at things, he thinks that practically anyone and anything can be phony, always saying things like ‘I found it phony,’ or ‘they were being phony’ and even, ‘it was all phony as hell’. He seems to use a lot of the same words over and over again, this could be “partly because [Holden] has lousy vocabulary and partly because [he] acts quite young for his age” (J.D.Salinger, 9). Even though, Holden is “six foot two and a half and [he] has gray hair,” it’s easy to mistake him for a 23 years old sometimes (9).…
Holden Caulfield: Phony or Real? Holden Caulfield embodies many of the ideas from The Most Human Art. Caulfield and The Catcher and The Rye have connected many people from different backgrounds due to Caulfield ideas resonating. Caulfield embodies many ideas from The Most Human Art, but he especially allows people to see stories through his eyes, realizing the consequences of our actions and teaching us how to be human.…
An additional symptom of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that Holden Caulfield exhibits is flashbacks, also commonly referred to as re-experiencing, to traumatic events. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, re-experiencing can take the form of flashbacks, nightmares, or intrusive memories. In flashbacks, the individual feels as if they’re experiencing the event as if it was the first time. In nightmares, the person has dreams with content related to the traumatic event. In intrusive thoughts, an individual may be talking when a memory of the event will surface and distract them.…
Over the course of the novel The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden Caulfield, experiences symptoms which effect his mind and body. I am diagnosing Holden Caulfield with clinical depression based on the following observed symptoms. According to WebMD, the symptoms of depression include sadness, trouble sleeping, increased fatigue, thoughts of death or suicide, mood swings, and increase in purposeless physical activity. Holden displays many of these symptoms in his behavior. Holden feels that he is on the "losing team" of the world, which causes sadness.…
Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, values consistent people in his life. This is because once he forms a special connection with someone he does not want it to change and risk losing it. Especially because he does not have many connections. Another reason is because Holden has previously had horrible experiences that causes him to fear change.…
The symbol of the catcher in the rye was introduced in chapter 16. One kid was just simply singing a tune “If a body catch a body coming through the rye.”(150). Holden Caulfield couldn’t help, but to be flattered by the ways of this little boy. Holden Caulfield chuckles because he knows that was him one day. This same idea appears again during a conversation between him, and his little sister Phoebe.…
After the expulsion from his fourth prep school for lack of academic success, the cynical adolescent, Holden Caulfield, returns to his hometown, New York City. There, Holden roams meaninglessly, trying to postpone his arrival and news to his family that he has once again failed to succeed in his schooling. Silently suffering over the death of his beloved brother, Allie, Holden builds up his inner turmoil toward adults and the phoniness they have created as they entered adulthood. Although Holden realizes that he himself is slipping into the adult world, he tries to resist the corruptness and demoralization by grasping onto the one pure element of his life, his younger sister, Phoebe. Caught between the conflicting worlds of blissful innocence…
This quote is from the novel, CATCHER IN THE RYE, by J.D. Salinger, where Holden is talking to his history teacher, Mr. Spencer, and talks about his future plans after leaving Pency Prep. Holden knows the world as everyone and everything being phony so when Mr. Spencer says "Life is a game", Holden believes that it is an unfair world controlled by phony adults and their rules. He believes that no one should be controlled at all and no game is needed to be played in order for society to go…
Common symptoms include; anxious feelings, guilt, feelings of being worthless, helplessness, lowered energy, disliking hobbies, feelings of restlessness, ability to eat decreases, thoughts of dying or commiting suicide, sleeping less than normal, and more. Clinical Depression is defined as a medical illness that gets in the way of being able to do daily activities such as getting dressed, showering, and brushing teeth, causing these activities to be unpleasurable, upsetting and life draining. Some causes of the mental disease include; grief, development from familial inheritance, bullying issues, and many more. In the case of Holden Caulfield, it’s grief, due to his brother, Allie, passing away from…
( Chapter 4, Page 147) When Holden went to Mr. Antolini home Holden awoke to find Mr. Antolini “patting… (him) on the head and all” and “making a flitty pass at” him, Holden may have been sexually abused because “that kind of stuff has happened…to (him) around twenty times since (he) was a kid”, which could also be a reason for the patient 's anxiety and BPD. (Chapter 25, Page 215) Holden began to over analyze a magazine article and “started getting worried about… (his) hormones”, which is an indication of anxiety. While Holden is walking to Phoebe 's school a feeling overcomes him where he “came to the end of the block and stepped off the goddam curb… (he) had a feeling that (he) never get to the other side of the street” and he began asking his dead brother Allie not to “let… (him)…
Many teenagers in the world feel pressured by society. In the book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield deviates from society’s expectations and feels alienation and loneliness. Salinger conveys this theme by using language patterns such as Language of depression and Name-calling through Holden has a lot of denial and anger inside of him, resulting in anger. Holden uses name calling to take out his anger on others, while he is mad at himself. Here, Stradlater gets mad at Holden for writing his composition on Allie’s baseball glove.…
The Protagonists: Holden Caulfield and Jonas “I'm not going to tell you my whole goddam autobiography or anything. I'll just tell you about this madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down . . .” From then onwards, we start to notice Holden’s habit of contradicting himself. Lying was something he had not trouble admitting. He even told us outright that he was ‘the most terrific liar you ever saw’ (Salinger, pg. 17) only he sometimes ends his sentences with ‘if you want to know the truth’.…
I am not sure exactly what illness he is suffering from, although it is very clear that Holden is different from us and definitely going through a…