Crazy Eddie

This novel by J.D. Salinger is based on a 16-year-old boy named Holden who tells his story about his young self growing up into maturity. Many symbols are shown throughout his journey in the book. There are many symbols that the author uses to try to make the readers look through Holden eyes. For example, The Red Haunting Hat he buys in New York. Another symbol in this novel are The Ducks In The Central Park Lagoon. Last but not least The Museum Of Natural History. The first symbol Salinger…

Car, it almost drove me crazy. I knew she wouldn’t let him get to first base with her, but it drove me crazy anyway”(89). In Holden’s eyes, Jane…

” The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D Salinger is a notable classic among english literature. This tale of a mentally unstable young man by the name of Holden Caulfield going through a journey to find his purpose. Something that many people with his condition tend to search for. We are told this tale though his own eyes, his side of the story and only his side only, it is a year later in what we can assume to be a psychiatric hospital. With all of this in mind, it can be questionable whether or not…

Psychological Case Study Case #44 PATIENT NAME: HOLDEN CAULFIELD BACKGROUND INFORMATION Holden Caulfield is a 17-year-old boy living in California who is currently admitted to this psychiatric ward. He is originally from New York and attended Pencey Prep in Pennsylvania, until his recent expulsion. Holden is a very skinny teen who, claims he doesn’t like to talk much, yet he does. EDUCATION Holden has attended many schools, from which he has failed out of. He…

Empathy is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Throughout J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, main character and narrator Holden Caulfield displays a deep desire for someone to simply hear him out. In his eye, the world is simply a bunch of “phonies” who are, for lack of better words, too self-involved and egocentric to listen to anybody. He may be the only person to ever pay for a prostitute with the mere purpose of having someone to talk to. In his…

Edna Millay, an American poet and playwright, was identified for her for participation towards activism through her poem Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies, written in 1937. In this poem, Millay claims, "Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies" (Millay). Through this passage, Millay declares that although childhood may seem endless, a young child will always mature…

Correspondingly, Holden was trapped in the moment of his brother’s death, struggling to transition into adulthood. Holden told Phoebe, “I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye […] And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff […] I have to catch everybody if they start to go over […] That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye” (Salinger 173). All throughout Holden’s life, he had observed kids in their youth and longed to experience…

In a world where the homeless are looked down upon because of their social status, human selfishness makes it challenging for many to trust and confide in others. J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, suffered from P.T.S.D due to trauma from his time serving in the U.S. army during World War 2 (Gopnik 2013). After the war, J.D. Salinger immersed himself in his work and wrote The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger, in midst of his fame, strayed away from doing public appearances and…

In literature, symbolism can be used to depict the problems that a main character shares with people in the real world. This is especially true with Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger as Holden faces the pressures of parents with high expectations, as well as his own contradictions of everyday society. After Holden is kicked out of yet another private school, he refuses to face his parents and siblings and instead chooses to wander the city heedlessly while learning…

The word phony is used thirty-five times by the main character, Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. David D. Galloway said, “Wherever Holden turns, his craving for truth seems to be frustrated by the phoniness of the world.” Throughout the book, Holden sees phoniness around him by seeing the imperfect in the world, and he wishes to not have the “phoniness” in the world. Salinger wishes for the reader to perceive phoniness as the flaws in the world shown by the usage of…