character, Holden Caulfield. The story of The Catcher in the Rye takes place from Pennsylvania to New York in a Christmas setting during the winter around the 1950s. As Holden was kicked out from his boarding school, he goes on an adventure to return home. Near the end of the story, after Phoebe gets mad at Holden for deciding to leave her and escape from his home, he decides that he will return home with Phoebe. He then walks to the park with Phoebe and convinces her to ride the carousel. As Holden sits
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The Metamorphosis of Holden in Sallinger's Catcher in the Rye In J.D. Sallinger's Catcher in the Rye, is based on the sullen life of Holden Caulfield, a 16-year-old teen-ager is trying to find his sense of direction. Holden, a growing adult, cannot accept the responsibilities of an adult. Eventually realizing that there is no way to avoid the adult life, he can only but accept this alternative lifestyle. What Holden describes the adult world as a sinful, corrupted life, he avoids
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The story was full of pain, suffering, and above all, just a dark story in general but it was covered up by making it humorous which made it a way better story. So the main character of the story is Holden Caulfield, the man with the depression and all the sadness and darkness surrounding him. Holden was suffering from so many consequences like depression, anxiety, and was trying to be suicidal but the tone of how that was represented changed since it was brought to the reader as a funny tone instead
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The story Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger is about a 16-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield. His story starts off in a mental institution where he is undergoing treatment for a severe nervous breakdown, after being kicked out of Pencey Prep. This is not the first time he got kicked out of school, he continuously fails academically regardless of the school. He develops deep depression over the death of his younger brother, Allie, who died from Leukemia about three years ago. He is not sociable
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Holden Caulfield - The protagonist and narrator, a teenager alienated by the world around him, he seeks comfort in his loneliness, as he barely has anybody who can relate to his struggles with growing up. Although he's very sensitive, his behavior is often rash and childish, not to mention very judgmental. He likes the innocence and overall simplicity of childhood, he gets along with children better than with adults. He is a troubled student and has just been expelled from his school, Pencey Prep
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In The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield grows into adulthood by pouring his feelings and over consuming thoughts out to an ambiguous audience. He appears lost in time, wanting to forget his bad grades, lack of relationships, and loss of his siblings through death and distance. Throughout the novel, Holden constantly refers to Jane Gallagher, a girl from his past. When Holden mentions Jane, his negative attitude and depression disappears. Although Jane Gallagher appears to have a large impact on
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Following my comprehensive inquiries into Holden Caulfield, I have concluded, as the patients psychoanalyst, Holden Caulfield has Post-traumatic stress disorder, more commonly known as PTSD. The patient has displayed multiple signs that directly point to disease resulting from trauma. Symptoms that were evident in this case were emotional detachment, flashbacks and agitation. In one study performed by Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) on PTSD, a common occurrence of trauma survivors
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Although Holden spends so much time and energy finding phoniness in others, he never openly observes his own phoniness. Holden Caulfield’s deceptions are generally pointless and cruel and he notes that he is a compulsive liar, for example, on the train to New York, he commits a needless prank on Mrs. Morrow. He would like us to believe that he is a virtuous model in a world of phoniness, but this is not the case. Though he would like to believe that the world is a simple place and that virtue and
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always saw the world in a slightly glass half empty type of way. I never really thought much of it until I encountered the character Holden Caulfield in the Catcher in the Rye. He similarly has the glass half empty outlook, and had the opportunity to do something good with his life. Instead he decides to throw it all away, and drink away his problems. Holden Caulfield has many problems. He is very antisocial, pessimistic, and cannot see any good in people. He is just a kid that decided to never grow
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immaterial; emblem, token, or sign. In the book The Catcher in the Rye, a novel by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield has multiple things that the reader can tell represents something else . The major symbols in Catcher in the Rye are Holden's red hunting hat, the graffiti on the wall in the school, and the ducks in the lagoon. One of the most important symbols in the book is Holden’s red hunting hat. Holden has a hat, it is very unique and it represents his individuality and the want to be different.
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