Freddie Portillo
Mrs. Kehrmeyer
AP English, Period 1
2 March 2017
To add to the pain Caulfield felt, he had no person to talk to since his parents were not in a good state as well. The agony created by Allie’s death resonated with Holden greatly, causing him to suppress his emotions throughout the novel. Scientific American elaborates of the fact on how suppression is “the voluntary form of repression proposed by Sigmund Freud in 1892. It is the conscious process of pushing unwanted, anxiety-provoking thoughts, memories, emotions, fantasies and desires out of awareness.” Caulfield’s actions can be further expanded by using Freud’s theory, and it makes more sense that Caulfield’s suppression is in place and affecting him. Suppression is visible …show more content…
Possibly Caulfield finds comfort in people who he views as pure and innocent, since he views everyone else as phonies. Caulfield’s suppression aids him, but also prevents him expression and by bottling up his emotions it creates sudden depressing thoughts, he finds multiple ways to look at a situation in order to find a depressing point of view subconsciously.
Being extremely empathetic to every person is dangerous, and Caulfield is empathetic to many (when he’s not talking trash about them) yet no one gives him any empathy. Caulfield does not like a lot of people, but he does empathize with them, for example, in Chapter Nine of The Catcher In The Rye Caulfield disregards guests at the Edmont Hotel as crumby perverts he says: “The thing is, though, I don't like the idea. It stinks, if you analyze it. I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're suppose to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so
Mrs. Kehrmeyer
AP English, Period 1
2 March 2017
To add to the pain Caulfield felt, he had no person to talk to since his parents were not in a good state as well. The agony created by Allie’s death resonated with Holden greatly, causing him to suppress his emotions throughout the novel. Scientific American elaborates of the fact on how suppression is “the voluntary form of repression proposed by Sigmund Freud in 1892. It is the conscious process of pushing unwanted, anxiety-provoking thoughts, memories, emotions, fantasies and desires out of awareness.” Caulfield’s actions can be further expanded by using Freud’s theory, and it makes more sense that Caulfield’s suppression is in place and affecting him. Suppression is visible …show more content…
Possibly Caulfield finds comfort in people who he views as pure and innocent, since he views everyone else as phonies. Caulfield’s suppression aids him, but also prevents him expression and by bottling up his emotions it creates sudden depressing thoughts, he finds multiple ways to look at a situation in order to find a depressing point of view subconsciously.
Being extremely empathetic to every person is dangerous, and Caulfield is empathetic to many (when he’s not talking trash about them) yet no one gives him any empathy. Caulfield does not like a lot of people, but he does empathize with them, for example, in Chapter Nine of The Catcher In The Rye Caulfield disregards guests at the Edmont Hotel as crumby perverts he says: “The thing is, though, I don't like the idea. It stinks, if you analyze it. I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're suppose to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so