Catcher

J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye follows Holden Caulfield as he wanders 1950s New York City battling his need to connect to the adult world while wanting to disregard adults as “phony”. The story begins after Holden is expelled from his school, Pencey Academy. That night Holden decides to leave Pencey after he becomes infuriated by his roommate Stradlater’s date with Holden’s former sweetheart, Jane. Holden chooses to remain in Manhattan until his parents receive the news of his expulsion…

an antiquated form of entertainment, the carousel has always represented times of joy and jubilation to the young children who have experienced the delight of riding the rotating animals. However, to Holden, the protagonist of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the carousel from his childhood days now symbolizes Holden’s impractical desire to preserve the innocence of children. During his visit to the carousel with Phoebe, his little sister, he contemplates the cyclic nature of carousels,…

The title of this book ”The Catcher In The Rye” is an Allusion to a Robert Burns poem: land the line. In this passage Holden uses Allusion to describe what he wishes to become in life. When he is talking to his sister Phoebe he references the poem "If a body meet a body comin' through the rye. " and changes the words to "If a body catch a body comin' though the rye. The importance of this line is revealed as he describes his dream of being a 'catcher in the rye" who can save children from the…

Holden’s mental state has increasingly been getting worse throughout the novel, “The Catcher in the Rye”. Holden is telling his story from a mental hospital. The author never gives a clear reason of why Holden is there. J.D. Salinger develops the deteriorating mental state and depression of Holden in the story “The Catcher in the Rye”. These important events throughout his life shape his future, and his attitudes towards others. The first main event to Holden’s depression is that his brother…

Throughout J.D. Salinger’s the Catcher in the Rye, Holden finds himself wandering towards a telephone booth, aching for a person to call. Often, he will pick up the phone, think of someone to call, and then make up an excuse as to why he shouldn’t call, hanging up. The relationship longed…

In Catcher in the Rye, written by J. D. Salinger, Holden, the main character, wants to save children’s innocence. In the book, there are two motifs, the mummies and Holden’s inability to call Jane, which both reveals Holden’s thoughts about retaining innocence. As Holden arrives in New York, Holden attempts to call Jane Gallagher trying to: “take her dancing. I never danced … the whole time I knew her” (175). Holden has no one to spend time with and decides to use his time with Jane Gallagher,…

that you experienced the “real world”? In The Catcher in the Rye the author, J.D. Salinger, portrays the fact that childhood is important but you can’t be innocent forever, he does this through the character Holden. He shows Holden’s views in the beginning through the people that he admires, and his thoughts. Certain events make Holdaen realize that he cannot make everything in the world perfect, and becomes content with what he can do. In The Catcher in The Rye, there are a very select amount…

kids playing an unspecified "diversion" in an immense rye field on the edge of a bluff. His employment is to catch the kids if, in their relinquish, they verge on tumbling off the edge; to be, as a result, the "catcher in the rye". In view of this confusion, Holden accepts that to be the "catcher in the rye" intends to spare youngsters from losing their…

PTSD is post-traumatic stress disorder. PTSD is when something traumatizing has happened if your life and you get anxiety over it and that's what you think about most of the time. The Catcher in the Rye was a novel by J.D. Salinger. In that novel there is an protagonist named Holden Caufield. Holden Caufield was a happy but that changed after his brother Allie died. Allie died on July 18, 1946 at age 11 of leukemia. After Allie’s death Holden became depressed. After Allie died, Holden was sent…

questions that can 't be answered. Amid the process of the adult world appears to be welcoming and free, yet just when we get to be individuals from a cold, real society can the delighted forgetfulness of adolescence be acknowledged and missed. The novel Catcher in the Rye investigates how adult life seems unpredictable and unimaginable to young people on the very edge of entering it. Through the hero Holden Caulfield, J.D. Salinger catches the perplexity…