Let's Go Crazy

efforts. “Nobody’d ever see [him—his stubborn childish identity—] again” (p. 106). After Mr. Antolini compels Holden to understand that “there’s a time and place for everything” (p. 99) he slowly realizes that needs to “find out where [he] wants to go. And then […] start going there.” (p.101). Mr. Antolini’s advice that: 'The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one: (p. 104) instigates Holden’s…

Ed is having an extremely difficult time trying to figure out the best way to go about asking Marv What he needs to do with $40,000 and out of pure coincidence a homeless man begs Ed for money while Ed is brainstorming. The author makes Ed obtain and Epiphany from this implausible event with the homeless man which occurs at the…

The short stories ‘A Perfect Day for Bananafish’ (1948) and ‘For Esmé—with Love and Squalor’ (1950) present the American writer Jerome David Salinger in his prime. Both short stories are well-acclaimed by critics as well as readers, as they preceded the author’s well-known novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Although the two short stories may not be as famous as the worldwide-known Salinger’s masterpiece is, they both represent him maybe even better than The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden…

and somebody needs to be there to catch them. This is shown in the book when it says “What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the…

MLA citation of novel: Salinger, J. D. the Catcher in the Rye. Little, Brown and Company: 1951 Genre: The genre of this novel is realistic fiction or coming-of-age fiction. The novel is about a teenage boy going through life. It goes over the many things that teens face. It focuses on the angst of teenagers. Historical lens analysis: The book was published after World War II. Soldiers coming back from the war had psychological issues. I think that Holden was a character based on the…

Phoebe´s school, once Holden is there, he seeks someone to deliver the note to Phoebe. While he walked around the school he came across to some vulgar vocabulary written on the wall; “Somebody'd written Fuck you on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how phoebe and all the others little kids would see it, and how they´d wonder what the hell it meant, and then finally some dirty kid would tell them” (Chapter 25, 201). Salinger let the writer know of this purity in the children, in…

friendship by inviting him grape-picking, Roo's pride and his anger at Barney makes him choose to break the code as well. When Barney says “Happy days 'n glamorous nights” he doesn't mean what he says. Rather, he wants to get out of the rut he is in and go back to be with the boys. His focus is entirely selfish and he…

and he becomes terrified she will get hurt. But Holden realizes, “the thing is with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you just have to let them do it, and not say anything…” (211). At this point, Holden realizes he needs to move on and go into adulthood. He realizes that Phoebe will have to move on from her childhood soon as well because she is already willing to take risks. In this chapter, Holden learns that life continues. He cannot do anything to prevent everything from…

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…

who is struggling to let go of his childhood and refusing to enter the adulthood. Throughout the novel he struggles about not fitting in with the people in school because he was not privileged or felt “too rich” and getting 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.…