Analysis Of The Book ' The Catcher Rye '

Actor Judd Nelson once said: “Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.” Nelson’s quote demonstrates a main theme of alienation throughout J.D. Salinger’s contemporary fiction novel The Catcher in the Rye. The novel follows teen Holden Caulfield as he leaves his school and stays in New York for the weekend. There, Holden constantly finds himself alone and isolated even though he meets many people. Through diction, indirect characterization, dialogue, and symbolism, Salinger creates the alienated character Holden Caulfield.

Throughout the novel, Holden attempts to find the true from of himself as he struggles with the social interactions around him. Due to the struggle and confusion that arouses from it,

Holden has several insecurities that are displayed throughout the book that hint at his condition.

The novel begins with sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield who is recounting two days back in December in the form of a long flashback. Holden has been expelled numerous times, his most recent, Pencey Prep. After getting into a fight with his roommate, Stradlater, Holden leaves school before he must return home on Wednesday to confront his family of his expulsion. Once he enters the train heading to New York he meets the mother of one his classmates from Pencey. Holden then misleads his classmates mother into believing that her son is popular among the students who attend Pencey. When he arrives in New York he encounters strangers dancing in a hotel, a prostitute, nuns, an old girlfriend, and his younger sister Phoebe. While Holden’s journey continues

The novel is immediately addressed with a bitter tone, projected by the narrator. The beginning sentence of the novel, “...what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth,” possibly foreshadows a tragic event that has happened in the narrator’s life thus far. The narrator, Holden, goes on to introduce his brother, who has apparently been sucked into Hollywood and has recently proclaimed a shallow lifestyle full of fortunes, whom Holden later addresses as a “prostitute”. Holden continues to introduce negative events that have recently happened in his life: losing the equipment

Holden starts his story from a mental hospital. “Im not going to tell you my whole goddamn autobiography or anything. Just this madman stuff that happened to me last christmas” says Holden. Holden is a sixteen-year-old junior who has just been expelled for academic failure from a school called Pencey Prep. After being expelled from your school every kid in america must feel pretty bad about themselves he was like all. Holden dint really fit in well with the other kids. He always though of the world as a bunch of phonies. The amount of criticism he gave the school was high class. He hated everyone except a handful of people. Holden's condition starts of alright, somewhere in the middle he hits rockbottom but fortunately by the end everything is good for him. Holden is literally about to crash. Near the beginning as well as the end of the novel, he feels that he will disappear or fall into an abyss when he steps off a curb to cross a street. Sometimes when this happens, he calls on his dead brother, Allie, for help. Part of Holden’s collapse is due to his inability to come to get over his brothers death.

So far while reading the Novel I have met the main character Holden Caulfield who narrates this whole story. The character is very interesting being only 16 and already be kicked out of schools being out of shape because of smoking. The way that Holden views everything and everyone as "phony" Another character that we have met is Holden’s older brother D. B. Caulfield. D. B. wrote a volume of short stories that Holden admires very much, and is writing for Hollywood movies. I am intrigued by this character because of how different Holden and his brother are that Holden seems to be having troubles with academics because kicked out of several schools but yet his older brother is very successful. Another character that we have met is Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer is a history teacher at Pencey Prep. I find this character interesting because throughout the book with other characters Holden as something "bad" to

As regards the main protagonist, Holden, there are many things to comment on him. From the beginning of the book, we can observe that he is not the typical character that usually appears in books. The first thing that amazes me about him is his way to speak. He uses strange vocabulary and some unusual expressions when he is referring to readers, that is, when he is telling us his thoughts.

Holden Caulfield is a very immature teen. He pesters many people around him and almost seems to enjoy getting under people’s skin. In the beginning of the book, Holden meets with one of his Professors, Mr. Spencer. His professor

Holden Caulfield is a very unlikely protagonist. The reader ages along with Holden while he spends his week in New York. His journey starts at Pencey Academy and ends in a zoo. Holden sees the world in two different ways the child world and the adult world. The child world is innocent and full of honesty.

So far while reading the novel I have met the main character Holden Caulfield who narrates this whole story. Holden is very interesting being only 16 and already be kicked out of schools, he claims that he is out of shape because of smoking. You would think that going to a prep school he would be participating in sports teams. The way that Holden views everything and everyone as "phony" makes you wonder what happened in his past to give him this idea about everyone. Another character that we have met is Holden’s older brother D. B. Caulfield. D. B. wrote a volume of short stories that Holden admires very much, and is writing for Hollywood movies. I am intrigued

The book starts off by the main character, Holden Caulfield, introducing himself to the reader. He is a young boy and goes to a school called Pencey Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania, and is about to be expelled due to the fact that he is failing four of his five classes there. Pencey is going to be the fourth school he’s flunked out of. Since he’s leaving in a few days he decides to skip out on a big football game that is going on to talk to his favorite teacher Mr. Spencer. When he gets there he is let in by Mrs. Spencer and shown to the room where Mr. Spencer is. Holden feels uncomfortable being in the room because Mr. Spencer was sick with grippe and looked very depressed. They talk about Holden flunking and what his parents are going to

It is used in connections with Holden's desire to save himself from having to grow up into an adult world he sees as "phony". Holden Caulfield, the narrator of the story, begins his journey at his current school named Pencey Prep. After spending close to a full semester at Pencey, Holden is threatened of his childhood innocence by his matured classmates and his intense prep school teachers; so his solution is to escape to New York City. Holden's escape to New York is an act of desperation, not maturity, as shown by his often inappropriately childish behavior throughout the novel. He constantly dreams of

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of

Catcher in the Rye starts off with Holden Caufield, the main character, alone at the top of Thomsen Hill above Pencey Prep. Holden has gotten kicked out of Pencey along with numerous other schools. Laziness is the reason of Holdens lack of success in school like many teenage boys. He goes back to his dorm and starts reading the book Out of Africa when his doofus roommate Robert Ackley walks in. His description to meet is just that awkwardly tall kid, like myself but with poor hygiene. Holdens roommate, Stradlater comes in and tells them about a date he is going on with none other than Holdens old fling named Jane Gallagher. Stradlater has a carefree attitude for her calling her by the wrong name multiple times. Stradlater also asks Holden to write an English composition for him since that is the only class Holden is not failing. Holden reluctantly agrees and that is when we get our first taste of why he is such an angry kid. He writes about his little brother named Allie who died a few years before of Leukemia. He specifically wrote about his baseball glove that he wrote poems on so he