Analysis Of The Movie ' Holden Caulfield '

Holden’s date with Sally Hayes exhibited his difficulty at cooperating with others. At first he gives us a dire impression of Sally, “I wasn’t too crazy about her, but I’d known her for years.” (p. 105) Later, he wants to marry Sally and says he is in love with her. The biggest mystery of all when it comes to women is with Jane Gallagher. Constantly mentioning Jane, Holden recalls playing checkers with her before he got sent to boarding school. When his roommate, Stradlater, has a date with Jane, Holden asks him a peculiar question, “Did you ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row?” (p. 42) Holden, jealous of Stradlater’s date with Jane, longs to see Jane but never has the courage to call her. Interactions with other people especially women perplex and overwhelm Holden. He therefore resorts to isolation, illustrating a characteristic of his mental state.

After the excursion, Mal went off to look for a bridge game, and Ackley sits on Holden’s bed squeezing pimples and making up stories about a girl he had sex with during the summer before. Holden gets him to leave by working on the English assignment for Stradlater. Stradlater said composition was supposed to be an easy description of a room, a house, something on point. But Holden cannot think of anything to say about a house or a room. So he writes about a baseball glove that his brother Allie used to copy poems by using a green

Holden Caulfield is a seventeen year old junior who was kicked out of Pencey Prep school in Pennsylvania for failing his academics. He lives in New York with his father, mother, and sister, Phoebe Caulfield who Holden adores for being so mature for her age. He has an older brother named D.B. who lives in Hollywood as a screenwriter and a brother named Allie who died from leukemia. Holden is very picky in taste when it comes to books- his favorite author is Ring Lardner, D.B., and war novels. Holden has a deep hatred for watching movies. He tries to quit smoking, but has an addiction to cigarettes (also drinking) which affects his health. Holden is the manger of the fencing team and is considered to be well off. He is a liar- he agrees with

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.

Holden is trying to protect children from losing their innocence, but how he is doing that is by trying to help his little sister. He is trying to help his sister by showing her fun, but he needs to take care of himself more. Because if he doesn’t he will slowly lose his mind, by having a mental breakdown. When Holden is hanging out in the city, he is thinking about how much his life sucks. For most of the book Holden is trying not to think about his life, because he doesn’t want to think about the consequences. Holden is pretty batty throughout the book, he is always thinking of a hundred things at one time. Holden is stressed out during the whole book, because he was kicked out of his school and is worried his parents will find out. So he hides in New York during the book, where he is doing stupid things.

Holden is struggling to become a young adult throughout the story.The first example is when he is fascinated thru the streets of New York.”my bags were there and all,and I figured I’d sleep in that crazy waiting room where all the benches are”.This quote shows that Holden is not ready for the adult world after getting kicked out of pency he chose these bad choices.He had to sleep in a waiting room of a subway and is going thru lots of problems.He had to sleep there because he does not want to tell his dad that he got kicked out of pency and does not want to accept his Consequences like a real adult.

In the beginning of the story, Holden Caulfield is in Pencey Prep on the last Saturday before the end of the school year. Like the three other schools he’s been to before, he has not been invited back the next year, because he failed four out of five of his classes. Holden receives a notice to return home in Manhattan on Wednesday. Holden visits the home of Mr. Spencer, his old history teacher, to bid him farewell. However, when Mr. Spencer starts to lecture him and criticize him for his lack of effort in his studies, Holden lies and leaves the house.

Holden Caulfield is a person we can all relate to. For Holden the death of his brother Allie has impacted him through out the book till the end. He has collapsed after his brothers death. It has impacted him a lot he miss his brother Allie so much. Holden loved his brother very much and idealized him so much.

When talking to others, sometimes Holden doesn’t quite get the hint that he needs to stop talking. Stradlater, Holden’s roommate goes on a date with an old friend of Holden’s, Jane Gallagher. Holden is very fond of this young woman and is jealous of his roommate. After the date Holden asks and asks and asks about what had happened on the date.

The dorm I stayed in, I shared the room with the strangest kid you’d ever meet. Holden Caulfield was his name. Holden was expelled from Pencey Prep because he was failing almost all his classes. Anyways, once I reached the dorm, I walked in to see Holden’s friend, Ackley, and Holden

For example, Holden refuses to call his childhood friend, Jane Gallagher, in fear of discovering she has lost her naive innocence - he prefers to think of her as a terrible at checkers rather than a sexual being involved with Stradlater. In keeping himself disengaged from the rest of the world, he is able to defend himself from daunting metamorphosis from child to adult. Furthermore, this sentiment is expanded as Holden undergoes the beginnings of his breakdown with Sally. To demonstrate, Holden hatches an idea that involves “stay[ing] in [...] cabin camps” where he would “chop [his] own wood” (Salinger 132). The remote description implies a withdrawal from the rapid pace of life that Holden desperately tries to cling onto in order to remain innocent. Despite the signals from his body - his tall height and grey hair - warning him of adulthood, he is loath to succumb to it. Additionally, his ultimate goal, to stop time and protect children from evil, is highlighted by how he wishes for the Museum of Art to stay the same and his aversion of change each time he enters the building. The three days in which Holden spends wandering the streets of New

Within these three days that the book takes place, many things happen to Holden. For starters, he is already getting kicked out of his current school. Holden seems to hate this school. He hates the people, the classes, and he hates how everybody is so phony. Holden continues to tell us that all adults are phony through this book. He can’t stand that all the adults are trying to imitate someone they aren’t and they continue to do awful

What we discover are Holden’s tumultuous desires to throw himself into adulthood, and his equally unstable reactions to his subsequent denial of entry. Coupled with, his obvious obsession with the innocence of childhood, the severity of his internal conflict becomes increasingly more clear. “The most glaring indicator of Holden’s current transition is his acting against emotion. It is very clear that Holden is lonely. Yet every time he reaches out for companionship he quickly switches to using rude and self-destructive behavior to isolate himself again.”

When his flashback begins, Holden Caulfield is kicked out of Pencey Prep School and goes to New York before his parents find out that he was kicked out. He wants to be treated like an adult, but struggles with accepting his emotions and interacting with other people. Holden begins the novel when he is seventeen by saying that he is not going to tell his whole backstory, and he is just going to state what happened to him the previous Christmas around 1949, before he got “run-down” and was sent to a mental institution to “take it easy” (Salinger 1). Holden starts telling his story the day that he left Pencey Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. That Saturday, Holden is standing on top of Thomsen Hill instead of attending Pencey’s big football

After an unpleasant dinner, Holden gets into a snowball fight with some of the boys. Holden and his friend Mal Brossard decide to see a movie which Holden convinces Mal to let Ackley go with them. As it turns out that Ackley and Mal have seen the movie they decide to eat and play some games before returning to Pencey. Upon returning Mal leaves, leaving Ackley and Holden at his dorm with Ackley talking about girls and popping his pimples. Holden gets him to leave by starting to work on Stradlaters homework to which Holden does not understand and starts writing about his dead brother Allie. Coming home from his date Stradlater arrives and reads Holden's composition and becomes angry that it had nothing to do with the assignment. Holden becomes angry himself and tears the composition up and throws it away. He decides to smoke in the room to annoy Stradlater but the tension between them increase when asked about