Society consists of many teenagers who have behavioral problems that can affect their lives and how the live in a negative way. For some people, like Holden Caulfield, other factors such as a death of a relative can cause problems in a teenager’s life. When Holden was thirteen his younger brother, Allie, died due to leukemia which caused Holden to become fixated at the age of thirteen and have the behavioral problems he has. Holden is very overdramatic and also very outspoken which causes him to get hurt in some way whether it’s physically or emotionally.
One of Holden’s biggest problem that negatively impacts him is that he is very over dramatic about certain things. At this point in the novel, Holden was at the Wicker Bar in a hotel getting …show more content…
He was there until about one o’clock in the morning and eventually ended up leaving and tried not to be too loud to make it obvious he was drunk. Holden talks about how when he was at the bar he started to think that there was a bullet in his gut and held his hand under his jacket pretending there was a wound he was stopping from bleeding. While being drunk may cause people to do stupid things it seems like Holden acts differently than most people when drunk. He pretends that he is in a movie is over dramatic, thinking that his life is like a movie. Being over dramatic causes Holden to think about how bad his life is and how he doesn’t want to face reality and just pretend to make everything better. Earlier in the novel, Holden had a similar situation occur. Holden was in his hotel when an elevator guy named Maurice asked Holden if he was "Innarested in having a good time”. Holden ends up …show more content…
He acts as if he was in an action movie and that one punch was going to kill him. At this point, Holden has mixed emotions and even thinks about jumping out the window and committing suicide, but he ends up just trying to go to sleep. Since he overreacted to one punch, it caused him to think bad about himself and he didn’t even feel like he deserved to live. Overall, Holden getting over dramatic mentally and emotionally hurts him because he feels like his life is
One of Holden’s biggest problem that negatively impacts him is that he is very over dramatic about certain things. At this point in the novel, Holden was at the Wicker Bar in a hotel getting …show more content…
He was there until about one o’clock in the morning and eventually ended up leaving and tried not to be too loud to make it obvious he was drunk. Holden talks about how when he was at the bar he started to think that there was a bullet in his gut and held his hand under his jacket pretending there was a wound he was stopping from bleeding. While being drunk may cause people to do stupid things it seems like Holden acts differently than most people when drunk. He pretends that he is in a movie is over dramatic, thinking that his life is like a movie. Being over dramatic causes Holden to think about how bad his life is and how he doesn’t want to face reality and just pretend to make everything better. Earlier in the novel, Holden had a similar situation occur. Holden was in his hotel when an elevator guy named Maurice asked Holden if he was "Innarested in having a good time”. Holden ends up …show more content…
He acts as if he was in an action movie and that one punch was going to kill him. At this point, Holden has mixed emotions and even thinks about jumping out the window and committing suicide, but he ends up just trying to go to sleep. Since he overreacted to one punch, it caused him to think bad about himself and he didn’t even feel like he deserved to live. Overall, Holden getting over dramatic mentally and emotionally hurts him because he feels like his life is