Character Analysis Of Jane In Catcher In The Rye

It is often said that the people one surrounds themselves with can reflect things about themselves, such as their beliefs and ideals. One’s friends and acquaintances can reveal subconscious attractions to people that fulfill their ideals or agree with the things they say, but these relationships can also help one discover their personal philosophies by reinforcing opposing views. Indeed, in J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, the way Holden reacts to and interacts with secondary characters reveal his established philosophies and the values he holds most dear to him.

In Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden, had many opportunities to learn life lessons but every time his faulty thinking caused him to focus on the problem and not the solution. Whenever Holden looks at situations he negatively overgeneralizes them with a bad attitude rather than learning from it.

Holden Caulfield is a character who has been through rejection and wishes to protect others innocence. He is a teen boy who is the main character in Catcher in The Rye by J.D.Salinger. He has an older brother named DB, a younger sister named Phoebe, and a younger, deceased, brother named Allie. Holden retells his story on him, trying to be the catcher in the rye. Holden has been kicked out of different colleges. He has been rejected by different girls. Holden goes through his life story. He talks about being kicked out of Pencey, his friend Jane, his “acquaintance” Stradlater, and how, when, and where Allie died. Society is to blame for Holden Caulfield's decline in mental stability. Society does not help Holden. Instead, they ignore his

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J.D. Salinger that occurs around the 1950s. The story’s protagonist and narrator is Holden Caulfield, a seventeen year old white male, who journeys to various places as he mourns over the death of his little brother, Allie. As a white male in a capitalist society, he has tremendous amounts of privileges that allow him to get. However, as the novel progresses, Holden describes his society as a place where honored human qualities are suppressed and capitalist ideals are embraced. Throughout the novel, we see that capitalism, “the social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned”, destroys the overall society for Holden and his generation (Rand).

Constantly rejecting the notion of growing up and facing adulthood can be overpowering. For Holden it was just that. That is most likely why he creates a mythical view of what he thinks will bring him happiness. Jane Gallagher fits this desire well. Ironically, we are never introduced to Jane in the novel, JD Salinger uses her to portray one of the few girls whom Holden both respects and finds attractive. This is done by introducing her as a memory; Salinger effectively personifies her as a fantasy, someone unattainable. However, this is exactly why she holds a tremendous deal of importance to Holden, as she is the arbitrary bar that all girls must measure against. In Jane, he sees a remarkable person without any acknowledgement to all the

A talented poet has the ability to write and understand poetry anywhere and anytime. In the novel “The Catcher in the Rye” written by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has two brothers that discuss war poets. Holden’s brothers are D.B. and Allie. D.B. was in the army during World War II for four years and despised his job and the men in the army surrounding him. Although D.B. was in the army, “he didn’t get wounded or anything and he didn’t have to shoot anybody.” (140). D.B. is also a writer which makes Allie think that the war is a good era for his older brother to further expand on his literary skill. Henceforth, D.B. makes “Allie go get his baseball mitt and then he asked him, who was the best war poet, Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson. Allie said Emily Dickinson.” (140) Allie’s opinion on Emily Dickinson being a better war poet then Rupert Brooke can be supported to be true. D.B. cannot support Rupert Brooke strongly as D.B. was the one who loathed the army whereas Brooke glorified war. Emily Dickinson’s poetry proves that one does not have to live through war to know of war and its hardships; reading her literature allows the audience to understand the nature of life, the relationship of the dead to the living, and the countless lives lost due to fatalities of war.

In J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, chapter 25, page 260, Holden discovers text written on the bathroom walls of his younger sister, Phoebe’s elementary school. The text reads “F*ck you”. Holden was very upset in this particular scene in such a way that the reader might ask “why?”. His anger is expressed explicitly with him cursing on the person who wrote this and he vowed that he would love to kill whoever did this if he ever caught them. Although this scene doesn’t seem like that big of a deal, it is one of the most important scenes in the book leading to a much larger significance. In the novel, there are actually two scenes where the words “f*ck you” are expressed. Firstly, on the bathroom walls of Phoebe’s school and once again on the walls of the museum that Holden frequently visits. J.D Salinger allows his readers to emphasize with Holden’s disdain for profanity by showing his emotional turmoil, contempt of phoniness and his overall protectiveness of his sister, Phoebe.

When a family member passes away it causes hardship, not only immediate, but also in the long term. In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The main character, Holden Caulfield, experiences the loss of his brother. He is distanced from his family and friends emotionally, and at boarding school, is separated physically. Out of fear, he begins to shield himself from the world around him. Because of the death of Allie, Holden pushes away any new relationships that could lead to him getting hurt and clings onto those he already had.

What could a single high school dropout accomplish in three days? A surprise may be in order with this classic coming-of-age story, The Catcher in the Rye, authored by J.D. Salinger. In the time period of the American 50s, a 16-year-old boy named Holden Caulfield flunks out of yet another school, hires a prostitute, receives a bloody nose, and buys a carousel ticket for his little sister in New York, New York; this is all due to the staggering number of phonies he encounters on his various adventures. These "phonies" include almost everyone he meets. Nearly every adult in Holden's eyes is missing something: innocence. He envies children and their nature to be truthful and without flaw. The main character is influenced by many things during his misadventures, but one constant remains, and that is his innocence. Caulfield observes and even partakes in bizarre action, but ultimately, he remains the same character relatively unchanged from the beginning of the story. It seems that despite what he has seen of the real world, he is still in a state of wonder and confusion through the last page of the novel. His journey, however, is the opposite of trivial. He comes to the unsatisfying truth that tells him his entire world nearly consists exclusively of phonies, whether it be another high school, or New York City, and he has to deal with it.

Have you ever experienced grief? After losing someone or something important to you, it can be hard to move on. However, most people are typically able to do so. Through some type of coping mechanism, they are able to move forward with their lives. Unfortunately, that is not always the case.

“Letter to Me” is a well known song in country music, by Brad Paisley in 2007. It is part of one of Paisley’s most popular albums, “5th Gear.” “Letter to me” is inspired by Brad Paisley’s wife and his own life growing up. His wife was asked to write a book as a letter to her younger self, and Paisley was inspired to write a song as a letter to his younger self.

Today’s teens can still relate to the story of, “the catcher in the rye”, by J.D. Salinger by a great deal. Many teens have the same tendencies and habits and beliefs like Holden does. The story pulls in the reader, with the intent to put you in the shoes of Holden Caulfield, a teen that goes through trouble in his life trying to figure out what it is that makes life impure, and along with his dream protecting children’s innocence from the cruelty of the dark adult world. I believe that this story is still relevant to the average teen. This story involve obstacles that teens face and have to bypass to get to the other side to learn from their mistakes and what they want as they enter into the adult world.

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"——— Maya Angelou. The way you treat the people around you not only shows the impression you give them, but it also shows the person inside you without knowing it. Holden Caulfield, who is the protagonist of the novel, The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger, is a seventeen years old teenager, who came from a wealthy family, being his father is a lawyer; he has three siblings, Allie and D.B. are his brothers, and Phoebe is his younger sister. Allie, his younger brother, died of Leukemia when he was only eleven years old, while Holden was thirteen years old, and it devastated Holden because not only was he close to

The beauty of children is the fact that they hold something adults have lost. Their innocence. They are not afraid to be themselves and simply enjoy life. Children love to explore in order to find out who they are as well as asking questions and igniting the flame that makes them who they are. Holden Caulfield, from The Catcher in the Rye, and Jim Stark, from the movie Rebel without a Cause, have parallel lives. Though Holden and Jim find themselves dealing with the transition into adulthood similarly, how the person deals with their problems distinguishes one from the other. Jim deals with his problems in a better way than Holden does, which sets him up to achieve more in life.

In the book The Catcher In The Rye the main character Holden is someone who gets annoyed and frustrated by mostly everything. He thinks that everything is lousy except his sister Phoebe. It seems as if he's always making excuses in order to not be together with someone. He looks for their flaw and hates on it. He makes it seem like it's such a loathsome flaw to have then he begins to hate them just for that one little thing. Holden does seem to prefer to put up walls around him instead of letting someone know what he truly feels and what is actually going on inside his head. He's also constantly lying to everybody whether it's about his age, name or what he's doing. Holden does not seem like he does this on purpose but it does affect how people around him see and treat him.