The Last Lecture

Holden Caulfield is a troubled and unreliable narrator manifold Holden had failed out of 4 schools. During the story he was hospitalized and which where he was visited psychoanalyst for an unspecified complaint and it made him unable to connect with other people . The 2 traumas that fueled his dismal emotional state the traumas were the death of his brother Allie and the suicide of 1 of his classmates. Holden is extremely judgemental he is of everybody and everything . Holden criticizes people…

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…

After the expulsion from his fourth prep school for lack of academic success, the cynical adolescent, Holden Caulfield, returns to his hometown, New York City. There, Holden roams meaninglessly, trying to postpone his arrival and news to his family that he has once again failed to succeed in his schooling. Silently suffering over the death of his beloved brother, Allie, Holden builds up his inner turmoil toward adults and the phoniness they have created as they entered adulthood. Although Holden…

control, and arranging" (Joshi 1). His behavior has displayed obsessive impulses. "Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ***. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact" (Salinger 54-58). "Girls with their legs…

Throughout the novel, “Catcher in the Rye”, J.D. Salinger takes the reader through the labyrinth of the protagonist and narrator Holden Caulfield’s mind. The novel parallels easily to many of the battles teenagers still face today, such as, the upheaval from childhood to adulthood and the feelings of uncertainty when faced with making choices that shape their future. As Salinger highlights Holden’s struggles to find his own identity in a world of “phoniness”, he also emphasizes Holden’s struggle…

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…

Some readers of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger believe that Holden Caulfield does not need to lie to get through life they think he can just tell the truth.They argue that Holden lies out of pleasure, and uses it as a game. They believe that evidence of this can be seen when Holden is on the train to New York and is talking to a mother of one of the boys at his school, when he lies about his name, “‘Rudolf Schmidt,’ I told her. I didn’t feel like giving her my whole life story”…

Symbolism in The Catcher in the Rye Symbolism is a figure of speech that is often used when an author wants to create a certain mood or emotion in a work of literature. It could be the use of an object, person, situation or word to represent something else, like an idea. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye utilizes symbolism to show the development of a struggling teenage boy named Holden. Over the course of the novel, symbolism appears during significant events and thoughts of individuals.…

He finds himself feeling the need to “buzz” a certain someone or the want to just talk to people and tell them about his crazy ideas but this doesn’t last long until Holden feels in solitary. “I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead,” (Salinger, 48). Holden is so lonely that most times he feels as though he’s better off dead. His loneliness is apparent through the lack of friends…

is at the moment and no one seems to feel similar to him. This causes Holden to feel detached from society. Holden also interacts with Old Luce, an acquaintance of his, to make Holden question what he really needs: “ ‘For God's sake. I told you the last time I saw you what you need.’ Old Luce says. ‘You mean to go to a psychoanalyst and all?’ I said [...] ‘It's up to you, for God's sake. It's none of my goddamn business what you do with your life.’ I didn't say anything for…