Holden Caulfield

carefree view on life and material items. Salinger cultivates this view through the character of Holden Caulfield, a young man with few interests and many pet peeves. He dislikes many activities which other people his age adore, including movies and football games. Furthermore, he holds people accountable for his ridiculously specific pet peeves, resulting in many awkward and rude conversations. Holden also does not believe that anyone is who they say they are, especially authority figures.…

D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield deviates from society’s expectations and feels alienation and loneliness. Salinger conveys this theme by using language patterns such as Language of depression and Name-calling through Holden has a lot of denial and anger inside of him, resulting in anger. Holden uses name calling to take out his anger on others, while he is mad at himself. Here, Stradlater gets mad at Holden for writing his composition on Allie’s baseball glove. Stradlater pins Holden to the…

Symbols can mean many different things depending on how you look at them. In J.D Salinger’s novel “The Catcher in the Rye”, Holden Caulfield uses many different symbols to show his thoughts and feelings on life, change, being unique and growing up. He has a very negative view on life and the symbols help to show that. Some of the symbols he uses are the ducks in Central Park, his red hunting hat, and his dream job of becoming a “Catcher in the Rye”. The first symbol in the novel “The Catcher…

young man who is full of emotional pain buried inside him but won't seem to let it out. "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life" (Salinger 16). Psychoanalysis theorist Sigmund Freud created the psychoanalytic theory that sets a base for Holden Caulfield’s thoughts and behaviors. Holden's character is portrayed as a seemingly ignorant trouble maker who's only apparent good virtue is Literature yet is failing his way out of a college prepatory school for wealthy kids. The narrative…

In the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, perceives the world as corrupt and is full of “phonies” and believed that it’s not the proper surrounding to raise children in, especially when they’re still young and innocent. After the death of his brother Allie, who died when he was young and was free from the corruption of the world, Holden was influenced and felt it was his responsibility to protect his innocence and other children’s as well. He is…

Salinger believe that Holden Caulfield does not need to lie to get through life they think he can just tell the truth.They argue that Holden lies out of pleasure, and uses it as a game. They believe that evidence of this can be seen when Holden is on the train to New York and is talking to a mother of one of the boys at his school, when he lies about his name, “‘Rudolf Schmidt,’ I told her. I didn’t feel like giving her my whole life story” (Salinger 54). Readers who think that Holden does not…

effectively demonstrates significant ideas. Using the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, notions of alienation and belonging in a conservative society, the awareness of aging and transition into adulthood and the different forms of grief and depression are expressed. Alienation through isolation is a recurring ideology in Catcher in the Rye. Within the span of four days, the sense of belonging in a traditional and guarded era is present as Holden begins an adventurous journey after expulsion from…

provides the reader with a first-hand psychological analysis on the struggles of a teenager entering the adult world; which is thoroughly revealed within Holden Caulfield’s rebellious attitude, critical thoughts, and unruly actions. Throughout the novel; The Catcher in the Rye, the rebellious attitude that the eminent protagonist, Holden Caulfield, exposes is insinuated by his…

aggravated. Catcher in the Rye’s narrator, Holden Caulfield is the epitome of the bee, but in the form of an adolescent boy. Holden, just like the bee, goes on living his life, stinging people one at a time. Holden seems to do the impossible, ruining relationships left and right. He destructs in different ways, such as, physically and verbally. Holden struggles to see or think anything good about anyone. Anyone who has a different view, or thinks differently from Holden, becomes a victim of his…

” 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…