Last Day of the Last Furlough

As he visits, he remembers why it gave him a sense of gratification: everything in the museum remained the same. Unlike everything around him, the artifacts were frozen in time meaning that nothing has changed since the last time he visited. Accordingly, this relates to Holden’s desire to cling to his childhood and how he refuses to change and leave his adolescent years behind. His ability to remember each description of how the artifacts reveal his nostalgia and the innocence…

J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye emulates what it is to be alone and gravely misunderstood. Holden Caulfield, the story’s recalcitrant protagonist recounts his dejected fall from sanity. Holden, shows little empathy for others and often rejects himself in an effort to cope with his brother, Allie’s death. The death of Allie propels Holden to adopt an angry/hateful view towards society in order to cope with the loss. On the surface Holden’s incessant ramblings about society’s misgivings…

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…

Comparing The Perks of Being a Wallflower to The Catcher in the Rye Personal suffering and the ability to manage the expectations of school and life are highly prevalent and recurring themes throughout The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Catcher in the Rye, but the ways that the main characters cope with these issues are very different. Both Charlie and Holden come from privileged backgrounds. And, both characters deal with very tragic events while they struggle to find a way to fit in.…

Throughout the story he only has negative things to say about growing up. He despises the idea of it and feels he will lose the last bit of innocence he has if he becomes a part of that world. Holden uses the excuse that it is full of phonies. Anytime someone does something he considers to be something an adult would do, he calls it phony. If someone does something he does not approve…

Catcher in the Rye is a book about a boy named Holden Caulfield. Now Holden isn't an ordinary boy: He's been kicked out of multiple boarding schools; flirts with older women; and somehow managed to end up in some sort of mental hospital by the beginning of the book. Or chronologically rather, the end, it's all a flashback of sorts; it's Holden telling his story the way he sees it. But Holden's biggest issue is the idea of the word "phony,"—a word so vague and versatile he applies it to…

Holden talks about Veteran’s Day at Pencey Prep, a day where all the Pencey alumni that graduated from around 1776, were greeted by the younger generation at Pencey. He goes in talking about a Pencey alumni, that kept trying to find his carved initials in one of the can doors in the bathroom.“He kept talking to us the whole time, telling us how when he was at Pencey they were the happiest days of his life, … Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy--he…

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, scholars tend to agree that Holden Caulfield feels inferior towards others, which lowers his self-esteem, so in order to gain confidence with himself, he feels the need to be superior. Finally, in the article, Anna Freud and J.D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield by Robert Coles, Coles introduces a new way of how Holden Caulfield is superior. Coles and Freud discuss different ways Holden Caulfield influences our youth and how that makes him superior…

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…

At the beginning of the book, the motif of “Loneliness” is utilized when Holden behaves as a noticeable antisocial individual around people whom he recognizes. At the last football game of the year in Pencey Prep School, Holden watches the game from the far despite the majority of students is cheering in the stadium. Holden claims that he “[is] trying to feel some kind of a good-by”, and before “[he] leaves a place [he…