I'm Crazy

away and roam the streets of New York City all alone. He has some wild adventures along the way. Including but not limited to; meeting a prostitute, getting drunk several times, and passing out at the Museum of Natural History. Through all of his crazy situations and the way he handles them you begin to get the idea that he has an intense fear of growing up. Throughout The Catcher and The Rye, J.D. Salinger uses symbolism to show Holden 's fear of growing up in order to help his adult readers…

kicked out, growing up to be the person he is, and seeing death from his brother, Allie. Holden faces adulthood and wants to protect the kids from the real world. Holden starts to admire the little things in life in order to know the meaning of this crazy world we live in. J.D Salinger expresses that loss of innocence can often change how Holden sees the world. To know someone who is so kind and…

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…

Although sex icons were gaining popularity in the 1950s, sexuality was rarely spoken of. Similarly, smoking and alcohol consumption became quite attractive in the adult world, and was sought after by many adolescents. In The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger portrays Holden Caulfield to be like any teenage boy in the 1950s, a perverted, alcoholic smoker, who just wants to be on his own. Although Holden may seem like he wants to grow up, in actuality, throughout the novel, Holden is trying to…

thought it was 'If a body catch a body,'" I said. "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around – nobody big, I mean – except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff – I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all…

story come from when he is in a mental institute. During the time of Holden’s deep ponderings he was talking to Phoebe about his desires later in life. Holden described how he wanted to be the “Catcher in the Rye”, telling Phoebe, “I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start…

In the early 1950’s, “Catcher in the Rye,” was written by J. D. Salinger. The improper writing style was/wasn’t common during its era. The novel was told from a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield in a first person perspective. Holden was a trouble boy and goes against regular standards. Holden see as if the world is against him; which causes him to have a negative outlook. He comes from wealth which may have affected his attitude and personality but created his bad habits. Since Holden see…

Holden Caulfield is one of the most interesting and confusing characters in all of literature. He is the seventeen-year-old narrator and protagonist in The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden, who is in a mental institution, tells the story of a weekend spent in New York when he was sixteen after he was kicked out of his fourth school for failing four out of his five classes. Holden is a very opinionated boy who has been related to by teenagers over the last 60 years. Throughout the book,…

really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of good-by. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don't care if 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…

does not want to grow up to be naughty. Similarly, in the book, he emphasizes, “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all…And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff…I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be.” Basically, he describes almost the exact scenario in the cartoon, except for the cliff. He also says that that is the only…