Holden Mental Deterioration

In the catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger the protagonist of the novel Holden Caufield on the go through many difficult milestones of the novel such as a tragic death of his brother Ali.
Holden faces difficult events in his life that all contribute to his Swift mental and emotional deterioration including: Allies death, Holden’s realization of phoniness, and Holden’s lack of communication with others.
Firstly the tragic death of his younger brother Ali is a major factor of Holden's emotional and mental deterioration “I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddamn windows with my fist”(Salinger 39) him sleeping in the garage is demonstration as a reaction to his younger siblings death of those Holden does not speak about how the death of his brother affects him he does show it in rather a physical manner. “ I sat in the chair for a while and smoked a couple cigarettes I felt miserable. I felt so depressed. I started talking, sort of out loud, to Allie” (Salinger 98) Holden's mental and emotional state has drastically dropped to the point that he starts to smoke and talk to his deceased brother, as if he were still alive, although Holden doesn’t show physically like a person grieving it does overall …show more content…
that's all”(Salinger 13) as Holden's realization of the phoniness around him, it drives him to leave yet another school. “ at the end of the first act we went out with all the other jerks… you never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody talking about the play so that everybody could hear and know how sharp they are”(Salinger 126) as he struggles to make sense of what is going on he finds himself isolated and surrounded by many phonies that constantly bother him, although he does not realize that he is also