I'm Already There

As my heavy eyelids open, I immediately look out to identify the scenery around me. After two years of traveling, the landscapes begin to slowly blend together. The red ground tells me I’m in Arizona. No, it’s too flat. Arizona has miles of towering mountains that make you feel tiny in comparison. It must be Utah. No, there’s way too much green. Utah is so red you feel like you could drown in it. It’s New Mexico. New Mexico has seemingly endless roads of nothing that rarely lead to any place of significance, but it still manages to enchant you. If I look hard enough, I can see the peaks of red mountains off in the distance of the open road, with nothing else but dirt. I’m in the passenger seat of a beat up 1962 VW convertible. The cracked,…

negative perception of all the “phony” people in this book may give the wrong example to teenagers whose state of minds are already fragile and easily manipulated. Holden points out everyday behaviors as not genuine, but this is just the exterior. He is really just upset with the world, because nobody seems to reach his expectation of purity as his late younger brother Allie possessed. “He was terrifically intelligent. His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a…

was going to face Pencey’s very best quarterback, number 54, Tom Richards. Big deal. Selma certainly wasn’t the type of girl who gave any damn interest in these types of phoney bastards. I knew because she told me that all football jocks hanged out in cliques and treated girls like hell. I’m guessing she only came to these Pencey games, was to please her old man, being the headmaster’s daughter and all. For almost the whole bus ride, I hadn’t even asked where she was going. I didn’t really want…

I have no wind, if you want to know the truth. I'm quite a heavy smoker, for one thing—that is, I used to be. They made me cut it out. Another thing, I grew six and a half inches last year. That's also how I practically got t.b. and came out here for all these goddam checkups and stuff. I'm pretty healthy though.”(Hawthorne 1.1). What Holden is referring to is the professionals helping him in the mental institution open up about what happened a year ago when he was 16 and he is now telling his…

Personality disorder. Clinical Depression, also known as Major Depressive Disorder is the most severe form of depression. Holden shows feelings of deep sadness that come out of nowhere and are triggered by random events. For example, when he was eating breakfast at the sandwich bar and he saw the nuns, "All the two of them were eating for breakfast was toast and coffee. That depressed me. I hate it if I'm eating bacon…

as an excuse to why he can’t seem to fit in with them. He thinks as if he’s found his place in the world by being in a mental hospital telling his story to a psychoanalyst but in reality, he hasn’t. Holden poorly adapts to situations that he leads himself in and is awkwardly different from others. The novel, ‘The Catcher in the Rye,’ exhibits a fascination with an outcast because Holden is a misfit. Holden never fits in the box. His point of views and actions differentiate him from people…

The novel written by J.D Salinger and set in the 1950’s tells the story of 16 year old Holden Caulfield's bizarre life. Holden has experienced the death of his younger brother and failed out of multiple boarding schools already but hasn’t seeked any help to cope with what he’s been through leading to further disorders. Holden is to blame for his problems because he appears to suffer from arrested development disorder and attachment disorder due to traumatic events that he has endured and not…

In an article by Jennifer Schuessler called “Get A Life Holden” an argument is made stating that Holden is just a “spoiled brat”. This just proves how misunderstood Holden is, He understands that he's fortunate but he doesn't go around parading his money Holden says, “All the two of them were eating for breakfast was toast and coffee, That depressed me, I hate it if I'm eating bacon and eggs or something and somebody else is only eating toast and coffee” (Salinger 15.17). He feels guilty about…

crazy about cars. They worry if they get a little scratch on them, and they’re always talking about how many miles they get to a gallon, and if they get a brand-new car already they start thinking about trading it in for one that’s even newer. I don’t even like old cars” (169-170). Holden is spending his time with…

it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse” (Salinger 8). Holden wants to make connections with people showing that he is emotionally invested in everything and one that he encounters; this ends up depressing him. 4)This ends up turning into periods where he displays alternating periods of severe depression. “Children with both OCD and BPD have higher rates of obsessions and impulses regarding to sex, anger,…