His Last Walk

different themes and techniques like this that are used throughout the text to pull the reader in and additionally entertain them. J. D. Salinger uses the main character, ‘Holden Caulfield’ to manipulate the audience into wanting to learn more about his hidden personality, resulting in enhancing the entertainment value of the text. Holden…

memories and failed attempts at relationships, which created a fabricated world in his mind; therefore, to solve Holden’s situation, he should visit a psychoanalyst…

Caulfield is a symbol of the younger generation who rejects America’s culture of conformity unlike his parents. The older generation of parents tried to defeat the spread of communism by conforming while the teenagers felt a disconnect to society. Caulfield uses the word “phoniness” to display his affection towards conformity. Caulfield would love to experience a human connection similar to his but does not find such thing. The youth during this time experienced dissatisfaction and emptiness.…

he travels home to New York to find someone who will listen to him and tell him adulthood will be okay. Holden tries to preserve his own innocence, and the innocence of others by not letting go of childhood memories and through his desire to suspend time. Holden's unresolved grief over the death of his younger brother Allie makes it difficult for him to move on with his life. Holden has difficulty forming relationships because he does not accept other people’s faults making it hard…

story a bout his life piecing together facets of information that sound intriguing and somewhat believable. When Gatsby is lying, he lies to cover up his upbringing to make him seem like a different and interesting person. When Gatsby is speaking to Nick about his life prior to being in San Francisco, he tells him, “I am the son of some wealthy people in the Middle West — all dead now” (Fitzgerald 51). Gatsby did not want to admit the fact that he’s from a very poor family and his father, who…

has been admitted to my facility by his parents and by suggestion of his sister two days ago, because he has recently been expelled from his school due to academic failure, depression and alcoholism. He is the middle child of three children. The patient is a heavy smoker and drinker. There are no unstable members of his family. While interviewing the patient, he recounts his past and how he has led his life to the present day. He seemed apprehensive to recall his story, and I believe he may have…

Oxford-English dictionary as to “Make forceful or violent efforts to get free of restraint or constriction.” Throughout the novel, Holden Caulfield has endeavored to ignore numerous aspect of his life, such as the inevitability of adolescence, the bleak outcome of his expectations, refusal to accept his reality and above all his own existence. Just as every great narcissist, Holden rebels against the very system he acquainted himself…

he was in the beginning of the book but then completely lost who he was. In the beginning Holden mentions that he comes from a privileged family and he doesn't really like it because rich people are phonies. As Holden loses himself he starts to lose his reasoning as well. Throughout the book Holden was kind of on a journey of self discovery. Holden was like most teenagers he was just lost, he didn't really know what he wanted for himself. I think the whole week Holden took for himself was to…

could have a terrific time! Wuddaya say? C’mon! Wuddaya say? Will you do it with me? Please!’” (Salinger 146-147). This quotation demonstrates Holden’s impulsiveness and lack of composure through his repetitiveness and illogical thought fluidity. By exclaiming “Wuddaya say?” and “C’mon!” Holden is expressing his erratic state of mind and unpredictability.…

Holden values children’s innocence. When phoebe asks Holden what he would like to be when he grows up, Holden says: “Thousands of little kids, and nobody’s around–nobody big, [he means]–except [him]. And [he’s] standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What [he has] to do, [he] has to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff… [He’d] just be the catcher in the rye” (191). Holden pictures himself as a “big” figure catching thousands of children before they fall off a cliff. Falling off…