He leaves school every day, going “home” to a shelter, where he takes care of his two younger siblings. His mother took her own life when his father deserted their family. This man works three jobs, struggling to provide for his family. He reminisces to times before the abuse, before the loss. He cries himself to sleep every single night, hoping for something, anything. All he feels is a great pain building up in his heart, that cannot hold up much longer. He feels depressed. Depression is a mental
disheartening journey from adolescence to adulthood that Holden Caulfield endures. Although holden seeks the freedoms that mark adulthood, he has yet to take up the role of a truly mature citizen as the society conforming nature of those adults disgust him, leading him to his gradual mental decline. J. D. Salinger uses the immature character of Holden Caulfield as a means of revealing the difficult transition from adolescence to adulthood and its psychological effects. Salinger portrays Holden Caulfield
The chart shows the macro sequence(s) of The Catcher in the Rye. One deals with the main character Holden Caulfield and there are secondary story line of Phoebe, Mr.Antolini, Mr. Spencer, and Jane Gallagher too. Further story lines of Ackley, Stradlater, and Sunny can be traced also. An analysis of these story lines shows that though their respective stories move in their respective orders; they are often embedded and joined with other story lines. They often crisscross one another and are finally
Within both The Secret Garden and Catcher in the Rye, Mary Lennox and Holden Caulfield come of age as they undergo a journey of self-discovery as seen through their induction into the adult world and maturation through their respective therapeutic landscapes. Although there have been extensive dissertations on coming of age within the respective novels, there appear to be none that look at the works in conjunction. The relationship between the works is interesting one to note as they can be classified
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. In the beginning of The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is an immature teenager. Holden gets kicked out of his school, Pencey
protagonist named Holden Caulfield. J. D. Salinger takes the reader into the life of Holden, while he is on a three day journey through New York City, in search for his identity. The theme of Childhood VS. Adulthood is a reoccurring theme that illustrates Holden’s struggle to forget about the past and dwell in the future. In the novel, there are three symbols that Holden associates with the past. First, the red hunting hat signifies the importance of Allie Caulfield’s life, Holden wearing the hat
character, Holden Caulfield, has a bit of an episode, and feels near hopeless at times as he struggles with his own adolescence. In order to tie Holden’s individual strife with the mayhem of every adolescent mind to form one central message, Salinger relies on a number of novel-based elements. Specifically, he illustrates the complexity and uncertainty associated with the transformation into an adult through the details and symbols of Holden’s journey. One way that the author conveys his message about
in the Rye and The Secret Garden, the narrators of the works vastly differ. Holden Caulfield himself narrates his experiences leading up to the mental institution in a colloquial first person. As a first person narrator, Holden’s reliability has to be called into question. Given that Holden is a narrator who
and behaves and it can cause emotional, functional and physical problems. In Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield demonstrates many of the symptoms of clinical depression. Holden’s thoughts and actions indicate a personal struggle with depression, a psychological problem that strongly influences him. Holden’s depression causes his loneliness, and can be seen in his fear of growing up and inability to tolerate the phoniness he sees all around. Everyone feels depressed or sad at
Salinger, Salinger takes us into the mind of Holden, an immature, troubled young boy in 1950’s New York. Throughout Holden’s journey, Salinger expresses his urge to protect the young and innocent. Holden has this urge because when he was going through a traumatic event his parents never guided or helped him, instead they sent him away to a boarding school and he never wanted anyone else to feel as depressed and secluded as he did and is still experiencing. His actions makes us wonder if there is truly