Holden Caulfield Commentary

Holden Caulfield the protagonist of the story. He writes story away from home where he was sent for a therapy. He didn’t talk about his childhood, he mentioned brother D. B. who is a Hollywood writer. He dislike him because D. B. has sold out to Hollywood, chose a career in literature to make wealth in the film industry. He begins to tell about his breakdown, it started when he departed from Pencey Prep, a famous school he attended in Agerstown, Pennsylvania.

Holden Caulfield is the narrator and the main character of the novel The Catcher in the Rye and he is also the patient. He is seventeen years old and he talks about his life experiences while he is in a sanitarium in southern California. The patient is upset about his brother’s death and has flashbacks about his brother’s death. The patient is adjusting poorly and withdrawing from social interacting because the death of his brother affected his way of thinking and his way of acting.

Who is Holden Caulfield? That is a very hard question to answer. In J.D. Salinger’s the Catcher in the Rye, Holden is a complex adolescent whose traits are much deeper than what he shows others. Deep down he is a good person who cares about others, but seeing how others are, makes him indecisive because he is still battling to find himself and decipher right from wrong. Knowing this, the reader finds that he is also very confused. Even though he can seem very negative and resistant towards people,he actually really cares about these people deep down, and even admits to missing them when he thinks about them. Holden deals with his conflicts within himself searching for the truth in a society full of phonies and falsity. He is the all- critic of the world surrounding him but at the same time an adolescent stuck between childhood and adulthood. Holden makes himself the outsider by blocking out the world. From his criticism it gives him a justification of why growing up is a bad thing and that all it does is make you a fake, a fraud, a phony. The outside world can give a misconception of how one should act or how things ought to be,

J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye features a complex narrative surrounding a troubled young student, Holden Caulfield. Difficulties he faces throughout the story force Holden to confront his fears of adulthood and maturation and the responsibilities therein through the difficulties he faces throughout the story. Academic controversy surrounds whether Holden learns from these confrontations and adjust accordingly, maturing throughout the story. While initially this seems rather subjective, a thorough analysis of Holden’s actions throughout the story as well as of the symbolism injected by Salinger makes it quite clear that Holden does undergo a significant maturity arc as the story progresses. Holden’s social development and maturation

One of the greatest American Literature writers, J.D. Salinger, was familiar with a rough childhood by experience. He was able to parallel his experiences to the experiences of Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in The Catcher in Rye. In this novel, Holden experiences conflicts that most youth are not familiar with. The conflicts in Holden Caulfield’s life are caused by various forces and circumstances.

Catcher in The Rye In the book, The Catcher in The Rye by J.D Salinger, Holden Caulfield sees childhood and adulthood as polar opposites. Throughout the entire book he struggles with deciding if he wants to let himself transform from a child to an adult. Holden is a young adult with a child’s mentality, that is trying to make his outlook on life more mature without having the responsibilities of maturity. In the scene of the prostitute, Holden wants to prove to himself that he is maturing. When the prostitute arrives, Holden regrets ever having the women sent up.

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher In The Rye, Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old boy, transitions from childhood to adulthood. The death of Holden’s little brother signifies the beginning his loss of innocence and growth of maturity. As he enters adulthood, Holden views society differently from his peers by characterizing most of his peers and adults he meets as “phonies.” Thus, Holden takes the impossible challenge of preserving the innocence in children because he wants to prevent children from experiencing the corruption in society. The Catcher In The Rye embodies Holden’s struggle to preserve the innocence of children and reveals the inevitability of and the necessity of encountering the harsh realities of life.

Holden Caulfield is the narrator. Holden was kicked out of his school, Pencey Prep, due to scanty grades. The reader’s are taken back to his last day at the school. It was Saturday, which meant game day for Pencey Prep. They were playing their rivals, Saxon Hall. Instead of being down at the game like every other student, Holden went to visit old Spencer. Mr. Spencer was Holden’s history teacher who had an idea that Holden would not be returning next semester. Spencer and Holden had a conversation about Holden’s life and his decisions. Holden ends up getting irascible with Spencer’s lecture that he mentally thwarts him out, eager to leave.

Caulfield is exceedingly sensitive to the things that he perceives as “dirty” or “evil”, and he feels responsible for the negative things in the world he is beginning to notice as he matures. After going to Phoebe’s school and seeing “fuck you” written on the walls, Holden visits the museum that he frequented as a child and declares that when he is dead, and “[has] a tombstone and all…it’ll say ‘Fuck you.’” (204). As Holden becomes an adult and returns to the places he went as a child, including the school and the museum, he begins to realize the amount of negativity and the number crude things that surround him in the world. By describing the way that his tombstone will have expletives on it, the author reveals how deeply the evil in the world affects Caulfield. The duality of a young, innocent child growing up in an “evil” world is too much for Holden to comprehend, and his attempts to come to terms with the juxtaposition of youth and evil in the world result in the expression of many symptoms of depression, including anxiety attacks. Caulfield attempts to come to terms with the idea that although everyone is surrounded by evil, the people he considers both the most valuable and most impressionable, the youth, do not understand the magnitude of the negative forces in the world. After considering the graffiti that he is sure will mar his tomb stone, Holden confesses to the

One of the purist times in a person’s life is childhood, during this time life is easy and often romanticized. As a person grows older the innocence and naivety of childhood begins to fade into a hardness caused by the harsh realties of adulthood. Though the transition from childhood is hard, one most remember not to rush into adulthood savor your innocence . In Catcher In the Rye , by J.D. Salinger the main character Holden Caulfield is in the transitional stage, he finds it hard for him to grow-up and act like an adult. So instead of rushing in to adulthood, he finds slowing down the process and acting less adult like is better for him. Holden finds mature adult like subjects and qualities phony, but finds innocent child like subjects

In the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist Holden Caulifield views the world as an evil corrupt place where there is no peace. Holden has a phony phobia that restricts him from becoming a fully matured adult. In Holden's attempted journey in becoming a fully matured adult, he encounters many scenarios involving friendship, personal opinions, and his love of children. His journey is an unpleasant and difficult one with many lessons learned along the way; including the realization that he is powerless to change the world.

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.

The journey between adolescence and adulthood is one of great discovery and introspection. As the blissful innocence of childhood is washed away by the passing of time, a long and confusing period of discovering one’s identity takes center stage. Prior to the process, the adult world seems one of great freedom and opportunity and is treated with a sense of keen enthusiasm. But, only as we become members of this cruel and unjust adult society, does the veneer of privilege corrode away, and the simplicity and innocence of childhood truly appreciated. As such is explored in The Catcher in the Rye, where a young teenager in New York City is faced with the daunting task of transitioning and maturing to an eventual adulthood, one that terrifies him. Holden responds to adulthood with resistance, fear andidealism, before slowly but surely succumbing to its certainty.

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.

Is age really something you can really overcome; the answer is no, no matter how hard you try to avoid it, no matter how many things you do wrong, eventually you have to grow up and take responsibility and initiative for your actions. This is a story about a young man, Holden Caulfield, who tries to escape from his responsibilities by avoiding go home to his parents. He goes from place to place trying to find something he can do to procrastinate him from having to own up and face responsibility for his actions. In the J.D Salinger's The Catcher in the rye, there is a 17 year old boy named Holden Caulfield who tries to escape his responsibilities