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Holden is unable to accept realities of life because of his negative personality. He claims that many people are phony and that they try to do things to make them look better than they are. Holden also thinks of many things as depressing. “It was really nice sightseeing, if you know what I mean. In a way, it was sort of depressing, too, because you kept wondering what the hell would happen to all of them” (p. 123). Holden always finds a down side to a situation. He fails to recognize the good sides of life, and this prevents him from seeing advantages in adulthood that are not present in his life.

Teenagers lives their life differently. However, when the time of being a adolescent arrives, they all have the same confusion and mindsets. J. D. Salinger’s novel, “The Catcher in the Rye”, is about a seventeen year old boy named Holden Caulfield, who lives his life with complexes and problems of his owns. Holden lives his life according to his favor and commit unreasonable actions. Holden has a difficult time trying to understand what being a teenager is. Holden Caulfield is a typical teenager because he expresses the problems of being a teenager.

It takes many experiences in order for an immature child to become a responsible, well-rounded adult. In J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger’s main character Holden Caulfield matures throughout the course of the novel. In the beginning of the novel, Holden is a juvenile young man. However, through his experiences, Holden is able to learn, and is finally able to become somewhat mature by the end of the novel. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield’s story represents a coming of age for all young adults.

There is only one experience that unites every single person in the world. Many people in the world can agree that it isn’t always the greatest experience, and many people have an extremely hard time getting through it, but every single adult goes through the act of ‘growing up’. For many, the transition can be very depressing, and confusing. When a child is young becoming an adult seems to be enjoyable and exciting, but it isn’t until that child is forced into the cruel, harsh world where the innocence of childhood can be appreciated and missed. The novel Catcher in the Rye explores how teenagers who are nearing adulthood see the adult world to be incomprehensible. J.D Salinger illustrates the confusion of a teenager when faced with the challenge of transitioning into adulthood using Holden Caulfield.

Every human actions meets in nature and they find their own characteristic feature in a good or bad way. Not everyone can say it is a pleasant experiment, but no one can deny that it happened. This single event is ‘growing up’. The transition between childhood innocence and adulthood is long and confusing, often uncovering questions that cannot be answered. During this time the adult world seems inviting and free, but only when we become members of a cruel, society can the happy ignorance of childhood be appreciated and missed. The novel Catcher in the Rye examines how adult life appears complex and incomprehensible to teenagers on the brink of entering it. Through the main protagonist Holden Caulfield, J.D. Salinger captures the confusion of a teenager when faced with the challenge of adapting to an adult society.

Adolescence is often a confusing time where people still have elements of childhood, but they are beginning to enter the world of adults. People end up stuck between two points in life and feel that they can not quite fit into either. In J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye, sixteen year old Holden Caulfield experiences the contradicting feelings of being a teenager while he is alone in New York City. He masquerades as an adult and his experiences represent various aspects of being an adult. He tries to act grown-up and engage in adult life, but at the same time he resists it and tries to hold onto the way things are. Salinger explores the image of adulthood using symbols. Symbols of adulthood hold for Holden a certain longing and resentment as he struggles with the turmoil of adolescence.

In J. D Salinger 's novel, The Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist, Holden, goes through many hardships in his journey to self-knowledge. In the beginning, Holden has to deal with being kicked out of school and not having any place to call home. He is also struggling with the unfortunate tragedy of the death of his beloved younger brother Allie. At the same time, Holden is trying to deal with growing up and accepting the adult world. Throughout the novel Salinger addresses the conflicts faced by a young man struggling with the trials and tribulations of growing up while also confronting personal loss and loneliness along the way.

The psychoanalytic lens discusses an individual's actions based on their conscious and unconscious mind. The novel “The Catcher in the Rye”, written by J.D. Salinger, focuses on the life of a depressed protagonist, Holden Caulfield. Holden experiences the death of his young brother Allie and struggles with transition from his innocent childhood to his sophisticated adulthood. This transition eventually influences his mental state of mind, which causes him to suffer from loneliness, frustration and alienation. The novel is better understood from a psychoanalytic lens rather than an existentialism perspective because of Holden’s conscious actions and unconscious desires which are portrayed throughout the novel. The transition from an innocent

Salinger proves this by…, “He's dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946. You'd have liked him” (43). Holden’s brother died and that is a big loss for him to face, which causes him to isolate himself so he does not get too close. This quote shows that he is afraid he will get hurt and other people will leave him like his brother did when he died. Salinger writes, “I told him I wasn't going to chuck it at anybody, but he wouldn't believe me. People never believe you” (42). This shows that Holden has had bad experiences with people believing him in the past, and thinks all people are that way. Salinger also proves this by…, “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody” (234). This makes it clear that Holden is afraid of getting attached to anyone because they could leave at any moment and he would miss them. It is evident that Holden has been hurt in the past with his brother’s death and other people abandoning him and that he is simply afraid of getting close to other

Psychoanalysis is a psychoanalytical theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the conscious and unconscious elements in a human mind by bringing fears to the conscious mind. According to Sigmund Freud, “The unconscious silently directs the thoughts and behavior of the individual” (Freud 95). Holden Caulfield, the main character in J.D Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is sixteen years old and does not act his own age for he is stuck in his own private world, filled with pain and suffering. In the novel, Holden can be observed through a psychoanalytical view, which provides the reader a clear understanding of his unconscious mind. Holden is displayed as a troubled and foolish teenager who is flunking

When reading page eighty through 110 J.D Salinger really emphasizes that Holden is lonely. Holden is not having as much fun as he thought in New York. Salinger’s methods in creating Holden are very confusing. He makes Holden seem very mature at the beginning of the book. He leaves his home and he leaves school acting as if he was mature but really when he got to New York he was very callow. The whole time he is away in New York he tries is to lose his virginity. He believes that if he conquers that then he will have one the war. He has been fighting a war on the inside against his emotions. He wants to be strong but it is hard to fight. He also is a very rebellious person. The world around him believes that sexual intercourse should

In J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, a young man named Holden Caulfield is on the edge of adulthood. He is a bright kid but struggles with many mental diseases mainly because of the passing of his brother Allie. This has caused him to not focus on school and has got him kicked out of many schools. He did not have many friends and he did not like many people. He thought of everyone as phony. Holden does not want to confront adulthood in fear of losing his childhood because of the fear of change, conformity to the phony world and the passing of his younger brother Allie.

Psychoanalysis is a method of analyzing the mind and helping emotional and mental disorders by inspecting the unconscious mind. According to Jacques Lacan, a psychiatrist, “Human behavior is often something of puzzle, requiring concerted acts of investigation to discover root causes and multiple effects” (105). Holden Caufield in the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, is a perplexed adolescent that is living in misery and agony from the past. From a psychoanalytical perspective, readers can understand Holden’s behavior throughout the novel as a troubled teenager trying to avoid growing up and demonstrates reckless actions like consuming alcohol, immature relationships with women, not committing to school and silly fantasy

Holden was suppose to be relatable and show the difficulties teens go through. However, Salinger throws some things into the novel that makes adolescents seem very far from Holden and hard to relate. Times such as, “I know you’re supposed to feel pretty sexy when somebody gets up and pulls their dress over their head, but I didn’t. Sexy was about the last thing I was feeling. I felt much moore depressed than sexy” (Salinger 95).

Life is a journey to be experienced not a boundless puzzle to be solved. Yet, many adolescents often end up finding themselves struggling to deal with the constant obstacles thrown at them. Seeking an identity and purpose, maneuvering changes, and learning new rules imposed by society are all difficult problems most children have to face as they grow up. Between the innocence of childhood and the intricacy of adulthood leaves a blank space for much growing and learning, but also much pain and confusion. Not all are ready to transition and accept the complexities of the next chapter, adulthood. In The Catcher in the Rye, sixteen-year old Holden Caulfield shows the painfulness of growing up; he is stuck between the chasm of childhood and adulthood.