What Are The Characteristics Of Teenagers In Catcher In The Rye

As we all know teens during their high school years really just want to be on their own and do whatever they want, with no school, no parents and have lots of friends. Most teens also want to be accepted by all the people around them and will do just about anything to make that happen, like making up stories that are just so far fetched that they just keep on going because it makes that person more interested in them. The teen also just wants other people to be there and have a good time with them, they don’t see any of the consequences in front of them, they only see the easy way out that makes them feel like they 're doing okay at the time. All of these same traits fall into the novel The Catcher in the RYE, like the character Holden. However Holden isn’t the only one that wants to fit in and have a …show more content…
Right, when Stradlater had mentioned anything about Jane he should have spoken up and be like oh yeah I really liked that girl or something on the lines of that. Or just not have brought it up when he got back, knowing he wouldn’t like the answer he got. Instead, he let everything fester and didn’t deal with the situation at hand. He ended up getting in a fight because he didn’t like what Stradlater. had to say. Which is the most immature thing that he could have done in that situation. After he fights with his roommate, instead of ending the fight and getting over it and making up with him, he goes and talks to Ackley a kid that he hates and instead of understanding that kid was asleep and probably didn’t care what he had to say he woke the kid up. In that situation, the only one he should have been talking to is the roommate that he needed to clear the air with, instead he made himself the jerk again and woke the kid up and then stays in the room to sleep because he didn’t want to deal with the mess he had just