Holden Caulfield had finally decided to leave Pencey after being expelled for three days. When taking an interview with him, he said, “When I was all set to go, when I had my bags and all, I stood for a while next to the stairs and took a last look down the goddam corridor. I was sort of crying. I don’t know why” (52). Before Holden actually left, Holden yelled at the top of his lungs, “Sleep tight, ya morons” (52). Holden left Pencey sometime after curfew. Since it was too late to call for a cab, he walked all the way to the station. After he got off at Penn Station, he wanted to call someone, so he went to the phone booth to call up someone. At first, Holden couldn’t think of anyone to call. He thought of giving Jane Gallagher's’ mom a call, …show more content…
Sometimes you get tired of riding in taxicabs the same way you get tired riding in elevators” (88). During the walk back to the hotel, Holden was having a mental conversation with himself. He was planning what to say to the person who had stolen his gloves. In the morning, Holden decided to call Sally Hayes and made a date with her. When it came to their date, Holden described Sally as, “ She had one of those very loud, embarrassing voices when you met her somewhere” (124). When their date was over, Holden was sort of hungry, so he went to the drugstore. When he ate some food he bought at the drugstore, he got some drinks and got drunk. “I was too drunk, I guess. So what I did, I gave old Sally Hayes a buzz” (150). They talked for awhile, but Sally hung up on him after awhile. When Holden isn’t drunk anymore, he decided to visit his younger sister Phoebe at home. When Phoebe saw Holden, she was super excited to see her brother again. “She’s very affectionate. I mean she’s quite affectionate, for a child.Sometimes she’s even too affectionate” (161). After talking for awhile, Holden left and called up Mr. Antolini. “He was about the best teacher I ever had, Mr.
The pages used for this rhetorical analysis range from page thirty-eight to forty. The opening sentence, “So what I did, I wrote about my brother Allie’s baseball mitt.” on page thirty-eight and the closing sentence, “Some things are hard to remember.” on page forty is a significant section in the novel because it displays character development of the protagonist, Holden Caulfield.
Holden calls Carl Luce, he graduated at Whooton School after Holden was kicked out of that school. They agree to meet for a drink at the Wicker Bar in the Seton Hotel at 10(pg.177). With not a lot to do, and since he is there already, he goes to a stage show and movie at Radio City Music Hall. He sees the Rockettes and a war film(pg.178). At the bar, Holden manages to get served even though he is underage. When Luce arrives, he tells Holden that he is dating an older woman in her late thirties(pg.189). Carl leaves for a date after having drinks with Holden. Holden stays at the bar and gets very drunk(pg.194). He decides to call Jane Gallagher but calls Sally Hayes instead. She tells him to go home and go to bed(pg.196). Holden heads for Central Park to look for the ducks. Holden reflects on Allie's funeral, which he could not attend because he was in the hospital with his broken hand(pg.201). Holden wants to visit Phoebe at the family apartment. He decides to sneak home and visit Phoebe in case he dies(pg.202). Fortunately, there is a new elevator operator on duty who does
Have you ever had this feeling of being so stressed out that you would escape to hopeless dreams, causing you to withdraw yourself from others? Among many themes that J.D. Salinger expresses in his novel, The Catcher in the Rye, there is one that fits that type of feeling perfectly. That theme is: isolation is a product of the individual's reaction to the environment and often leads to downfalls and other negative consequences. This is clearly demonstrated through the influence of the allusions and symbols that Salinger uses to subtly apply the theme mentioned above.
Holden Caufield emphasizes on the loss of innocence in children. He feels that once they lose their innocence, they will soon turn into phonies like everyone else. The loss of innocence is very common in the development in human existence. It is caused by many factors. Past a certain age, children are either forced or led unintentionally into a pathway of corruption. A child is also known to lose their innocence by desires, fantasies, and attention. But once they lose their innocence, they tend to desire to go back and pretend to be young again. In the Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden discusses the importance of innocence in children's lives. He feels that once a child loses his/her innocence, he/she will soon be leaded to a
Zeke and I were walking to Ignacio’s on the last day of school with a group of people
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
Holden is in a cab on his way to Ernie’s and after he asks the driver with Holden. When Holden asks why he is “sore” about it, the cab driver denies being upset. Holden seems to constantly anger people throughout the story due to his blunt way of addressing topics and his inability to see the positive side of things. The cab driver on the other hand, is clearly upset, but is instead choosing to be passive aggressive by denying his anger. I do not like when people are passive aggressive. I would much rather someone talk to me directly and maturely if they are upset.
First of all, in the book, the tone of Holden’s character showed the transaction between childhood to adulthood. Therefore, the character of Holden seems to be whiny, irresponsible, and unfavourable and it was the snapshot of teenagers: “I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. ” This quote conveys that Holden is growing up and he is starting to realize his personality. In contrast, it was difficult to find a line in the movie version that showed Holden’s progress. At the end of the book, Holden mentioned that he missed everyone and he felt sorry “I'm sorry I told so many people about it” and “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody”. This showed the progress of childhood to adulthood and Holden has grown up
UPDATED Draft of Analytical Paper Title: to be determined When reading a novel, it is crucial to realize what is being symbolized in it. Symbols can bring up main points and get the theme of the novel across to the reader. Motifs are just as important because they convey important objects or events that develop a character. The theme in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye portrays how maturity and struggle go hand in hand.
Holden allows the reader to hypothesize that he is attracted to a girl named Jane Gallagher, by constantly telling of his fond memories of her, but when push comes to shove his tendency to alienation himself from society, to "protect himself from losing his innocence", takes him over. On page 116 of the novel, Holden tells the reader that after he got his sister a record he went to a phone booth and called Jane's house. But when her mother picked up the phone he hung up. Holden tells the reader that he "didn't feel like getting into a long conversation with her mother" so he hung up but in reality Holden's personal preference of alienating himself frightened him and prevented him of making any contact with Jane.
It is clear Ryerson University needs a better way to make education accessible to all their students. With the constant delays of the transit systems we have, and the rising costs to commute, students are skipping lectures. The best solution to this problem is starting VR enabled lectures. This will keep expenses low for students and save time that students struggle to find. VR enabled lectures are far superior to the alternative, which is living on campus. By living on campus expenses increase and you’re not in the comfort of your home. Also it is not guaranteed you will get approved to live on residence because of the limited beds available. Being a computer science students we already have the necessary knowledge to make this possible, as
“It killed me, it really did.” Remember this phrase from somewhere? It’s the line Holden Caulfield says every time in the iconic novel; The Catcher in the Rye. Since the book was published in 1951 by J.D. Salinger, many people from all over the world have loved it. This book was even carried by the killer of John Lennon, and was banned in the past. The protagonist Holden Caulfield is a 16-year-old boy who has just gotten expelled from his Prep school. And until the end, the story is has been about Holden’s journey in New York City. He's alone. He does have a family and parents, but he hardly has any contact with them. It makes him lonelier and lonelier. What does he need? Why is it that Holden is mentally struggling so much even though he’s rich and goes to good schools? It’s because Holden isn’t getting the right help he needs. Holden has been alone ever since Allie died. He was close to his siblings, but from far away. He hardly had any close friends. The adults he seeks advice from his former teachers. They cared about Holden, but they had their own lives. Old Spencer was old and sick, and Mr. Antolini wasn’t as unconditional as he seemed to be. He needs his parents. It is a pity that his parents weren't trying to communicate with their son as much about his feelings, but Holden had every chance to approach them first. After he gets off the train when he arrives in New York, he gets a chance to call his parents. He thinks, “I couldn’t think anybody to call up. My kid
Many teenagers today struggle with being an outcast and don't know how to fit in with school or society. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger still resonates with some teenagers who struggle with loneliness. Holden finds it difficult to find somebody with whom he can place his trust in. He often refers to others as "phony" even before he gets the chance to know them.
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J.D. Salinger. It is narrated by Holden Caulfield, a cynical teenager who recently got expelled from his fourth school. Though Holden is the narrator and main character of the story, the focus of Salinger’s tale is not on Caulfield, but of the world in which we live. The Catcher in the Rye is an insatiable account of the realities we face daily seen through the eyes of a bright young man whose visions of the world are painfully truthful, if not a bit jaded. Salinger’s book is a must-read because its relatable symbolism draws on the reader’s emotions and can easily keep the attention of anyone.
After Holden arrives in New York and takes a cab to his hotel, he "damn near gave my kid sister Phoebe a buzz, though. I certainly felt like talking to her on the phone. Somebody with sense and all," (66). Holden wants to talk to Phoebe as he has been isolated from her and feels because she is someone who he has a strong connection with, that she will make him less depressed shown by him saying that she had sense. Also while Holden is in his hotel room in New York, after his prostitute leaves, he "felt depressed," then he began "talking, sort of out loud, to Allie," (98). Allie's death made Holden isolated form someone who was close to him. Him attempting to talk to Allie shows how his loneliness and depression was caused by his isolation because he wants to try to reconnect with Allie to end his loneliness. While on his way to a bar from the hotel, Holden describes New York as making him feel "lonesome and depressed" and how he wished "[he] could go home and shoot the bull with old Phoebe," (81). Holden feels lonely and depressed in New York because of his isolation from Phoebe, someone he loves. This is proved by how he describes that he wishes he could go home and talk with her for a while. After getting to New York, Holden's feelings still follow him as he feels lonely and depressed thinking about Phoebe and wanting to see