I'm Right Here

hat, and less than a day later she gives it right back to him. Phoebe realized that she didn't need the fabled ‘protection’ of the hat, but that Holden still did. Phoebe realizes that Holden needs the protection of the hat back when he send her a note saying that he was going to “hitchhike out west” (p. 220) that afternoon. Holden thought that he could live without it’s protection but as he goes about his single day without the hat, he starts to slide right back down the slippery slope of his…

about every single person in the book to maybe make himself feel better about himself. Holden goes as far as trying to kill his roommate while he is brushing his teeth. “All I know is I got up or something then I tried to sock him, with all my might, right smack into the toothbrush so it would split his goddam throat open…”(PG.43) Holden also looks towards verbal violence for the answer to his problems as well. He loves to cuss at others when he is feeling angry. “You’re a dirty stupid…

stressing out because he realizes these are things that he can not control therefore, a weight is lifted off of his shoulders. Later at the end of the story, Holden says, “A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I’m going to apply myself when I go back to school next September” (276). The fact that Holden is seeing a psychoanalyst means that he is getting help. This means that Holden is able to admit his problems, which means he is much more…

Innocence doesn't last How old can kids be and still be considered innocent? In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, which is narrated by Holden, takes the reader through his life as a junior as he gets kicked out of his private school Pencey. Holden decides that he no longer needs school. Holden wants to move far away from the city where no one knows him. Before holden leaves he stays in the city for four days. During these four days he learns something important about what he…

In, both J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Dead Poets Society, the theme of conformity is present in the main character’s journeys in very similar ways. In Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, the main character Holden Caulfield struggles with conformity throughout the novel as he is often pressured to do things he is opposed to but society deems acceptable and expected of someone his age, many of which he conforms to. Throughout the novel, Holden is characterized as a very hypocritical character…

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…

to belong to Allie. Holden makes it clear he enjoys reminiscing about Allie this way, saying, “I happened to have it with me, in my suitcase, so I got it out and copied down the poems that were written on it… I sort of liked writing about it” (51). Here, Holden writes about what he’s passionate for. He writes the composition more for himself than he is for Stradlater. Moreover, Holden’s reaction to Allie’s death is extreme; he punches windows until his knuckles bleed. He describes the scene in…

Throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye and the film Dead Poets Society, both of the main characters Holden and Neil have strained relationships with their parents. For Holden Caulfield, he struggles with the fear of telling his parents that he was expelled from boarding school due to the expectations of his parents. Then, for Neil, he struggles with finding his own path that is separate from his father’s ideas, but cannot confront the strictness of his father. Within these two sources are…

Spencer advises that “‘life is a game that one plays according to the rules’”(8). However, as he noddingly complies, Holden monologues “If you If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right—I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing”(8). This is the first time the reader is able to clearly pick up on the contempt that Holden has for adults and their outlook…

I said. “Would you care to stop on the way and join me for a cocktail? On me, I’m loaded.” “Can’t do it, Mac. Sorry” (The Catcher in the Rye 60). Even the cab driver rejects Holden’s invitation to go grab a drink with him even though Holden offers to pay for the drinks. This is how desperate Holden really is for companionship. Moving along, the fishing pole is in the ocean for Holden, but he is waiting for that one right fish to catch on and actually talk to him. According to Holden: “I sort of…