Let's Go Crazy

The Catcher in The Rye has over 65 million sales and sells about 250,000 copies per year. This book portrays the life of JD Salinger (the book’s author) in Holden Caulfield (The main character). This book has been read by almost everyone in the United States and for a good reason. The Catcher In the Rye’s main character Holden is able to relate with any reader. There is no definite explanation for the book, JD Salinger left it up to the readers to decide what the book meant to them. Each…

As the novel opens, Holden stands alone on a hill that separates him from the rest of his peers. His stance is ironically similar to his view of the world; _______________________. Thus, when Mr. Spencer tells him that life is a game he states “if you get on the side where all the hot shots are then it’s a game” (Salinger 8). He believes the world to be a mere collection of all of the so called phonies that he despises, so he "holds" back to avoid becoming a part of the ugliness that surrounds…

mature. For instance, when Phoebe tries to come with Holden to travel to a new place to live, Holden tells Phoebe that she “can’t take [any of her belongings] because [she’s] not going” (206) with him. The fact how Holden doesn’t want her sister to go with him to a new place to live proves how he cares about his sister; he does not want Phoebe to be caught up with any troubles, thus demonstrating how he is intellectually mature. There is also an inner paradox within Holden keeping him frozen…

judgemental he is of everybody and everything . Holden criticizes people who are boring and people who are insecure but above all the people who Holden describes to be phony he carries a liking for passing the judgement to such a high level that it makes is crazy funny . Holden speculates that people hate him and are so stupid…

Have you ever been scared to go into adulthood ? In “the catcher in the Rye” Holden caulfield is a teenager who is scared to grow up out off his innocence to adulthood. He seems to run away from many of his problems. He wants to be heard, however he doesn't want to listen to what others have to say. He wants to save kids from growing up and going into adulthood as he thinks the adulthood is cruel. I believe “The Catcher in the Rye” is still relevant to today's teens as the actions taken by…

"'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 day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and…

Museum of Natural History, he mentions that he likes the museum because it will always be the same each and every time he visits. “The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving…

In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield strikes up a conversation with two New York cab drivers about the ducks in Central Park. He asks his first cab driver if he “happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance" and throws the same question at a second cab drive a few chapters later. In his breakdown moment, he stumbles drunkenly around the park looking to see “what the hell the ducks were doing, see if they were…

like an outcast. Evidence of this can be seen when Holden lies to himself when he says to Ackley, “‘Listen. What’s the routine for joining a Monastery?’ I was sort of toying with the idea of joining one.” Holden then continues to say to Ackley, “Aah, go back to sleep. I’m not gonna join one anyway” (Salinger 50). This evidence reveals why he lies so much. Holden is different from most kids and knows he is an outcast, so rather than being an outcast in society, he wants to leave society. But,…

Holden’s loneliness and fear of things vanishing is shown when he searches for answers about the disappearance of the ducks in the Central Park Lagoon. “I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go. I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.” (pg. 18) Holden has a fear of change. He ponders about…