The Catcher In The Rye Character Analysis

The novel, Night, by Elie Wiesel tells the true story of his and his father’s brutal treatment and survival of the Holocaust. The novel, The Catcher in the Rye, told by a sixteen year old named Holden Caulfield, describes in great detail what he did after he was expelled from his private school, Pency. The novel, Of Mice and Men, describes the journey of two men, George and Lennie, working on a plantation to earn enough money to buy their own stake of land. The characters in all three of these novels develop in their overall psyche according to the setting of the story. Specifically, Elie Wiesel, Holden Caulfield, George, and Lennie develop in their overall psyche according to the setting of the story.
Ellie Wiesel’s overall psyche develops …show more content…
When Holden is at school, he seems to be dissatisfied. At one point, he gets in a fight with a student named Stradlater. Any time Holden is at school, he seems to be annoyed with his colleagues. “Ackley had a lot of pimples. Not just on his forehead or chin, like most guys, but all over his whole face. And not only that, he had a terrible personality. He was also sort of a nasty guy. I wasn’t too crazy about him, to tell you the truth” (Salinger pg. 23). Whenever Holden is walking around the city, he feels lonely. For example, he talks to random people, just to make himself feel less lonely. Holden also visits places that he has enjoyed in the past such as a bar, or the park. When Holden is walking through the city at night, he mentions how he feels; “It wasn’t far to the park and I didn’t have any other place special to go-I didn’t even know where I was going to sleep yet-so I went. I wasn’t tired or anything. I just felt blue as hell” (pg.170). When Holden is by the carrousel at the zoo, he gets very happy despite the fact that it is raining. “My hunting hat gave me quite a lot of protection, in a way, but I got soaked anyway. I didn’t care though. I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so happy, if you want to know the truth” (pg.233). Because Holden has an emotional attachment to the zoo and the carrousel, he …show more content…
When George and Lennie arrive in Soledad, George is extremely annoyed; “Wonder he isn’t too damn good to stop in Soledad at all. Kicks us out and says, ‘jes a little stretch down the road.’ I bet it was more than four miles. Damn hot day” (Steinbeck pg. 6). George is annoyed because the landscape is so wide open and hot. Because of the landscape, George’s mood is affected until he and Lennie get to the ranch. When George, Candy, and Lennie are talking about their goal of owning and living on their own ranch, they all get excited. Though this isn’t an actual landscape that the characters are in, it still affects them greatly and motivates them to finish the month of work so that George, Lennie, and Candy can pool their money together to buy the place. George stands up and says, “We’ll do her, we’ll fix her up that little old place an’ go and live there.’ They all sat still all bemused by the beauty of the thing, each mind was popped into the future when this lovely thing should come about” (pg. 59). The hypothetical landscape of the ranch that the characters will own in the future excites all three of them. Lennie is emotionally affected by Crooks’ room. When Lennie goes into the barn to see his pup, he is drawn to the light of Crooks’ room. Crooks tells Lennie, “Well, go see your pup then. Don’t come I a place where you’re not wanted.” Lennie lost his smile. He advanced a step into the