Holden's Relationship With His Parents

In the novel , “The Catcher in The Rye” by J.D Salinger, the main character, and narrator, Holden Caulfield, battles with many of things in his life. Holden battles between him becoming an adult, and staying a child. Part of him wants to grow up and experience adulthood, and another part of him wants to stay a child and keep his innocence. In the story, Holden’s parents really show him much attention, they used their money to help him out with any problem he was having. They thought their money could cure him, but really he just needed to be shown love by his parents. Since before Holden was born, his parents have time for him, they were always too busy to show him love and take care of him. In the beginning, Holden tells about his relationship between him and his parents. “The first thing you’ll probably want to know is where was born, and what my lovely childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me.” (1) tells how his parents make time for him, they really treat him the way they should. Holden’s …show more content…
It was always just him, he doesn’t have many friends. At the beginning, he states how he never really got along with anyone in school. Holden doesn’t have any friends, mostly because he thinks everyone is a “phony” and “fake”. But realistically he is the ”phony” and “fake”. Holden tells people lies but acts like there is nothing wrong with him. "'It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so that you can learn enough to be smart enough to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac some day, and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the football team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day, and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques'" (131) The quote explains how Holden thinks of all these people and how they don’t get along. Also how he hates cliques because he’s never fit into