Holden Caulfield Teenager

The Catcher in the Rye is written by J.D Salinger and is a coming-of-age novel. This book portrays Holden Caulfield, a sixteen-year-old protagonist, who gets expelled from his fourth school. After this incident, Holden goes on a journey in New York before heading home to face the consequences from his parents. Throughout his odyssey, for investigating the meaning of life, Holden is accommodated by three people- Dick Slagle, James Castle, and his younger sister, Phoebe. These three characters left in imprint on him.

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,

Fear of growing up. Change. Innocence. These are all relatable traits that most people can understand as a teenager. Nineteen year old Holden Caulfield, the main character from J.D Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, possess all of these traits. I think there's a little bit of Holden Caufield in all of us. People who are resentful and afraid of the ever growing world around us, but still all the same try to grow up a little bit too fast. As well as, people who try to retain any innocence they have. All of this and more is why J.D Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye is still very relevant today.

The book, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, discusses many different aspects of the life of a young adult. The main character, Holden Caulfield, appears to be a typical self-absorbent teenager. Yet the majority of the time Holden makes valid points on what goes on in today’s society. Even though the book was set back in time, the issues discussed in the novel are still relevant today. Holden is often seen as an arrogant individual when in reality he wants a better world to live in.

As one of the readers, I were able to vision a teenager Holden Caulfield’s life in the novel The Cather in the Rye. When Holden was a teenager he was one of the people, who hated anyone who acted phony, but actually he realized he was the same. The same means acting Phony. After witnessing his younger brother, Allie, death from leukemia, he still had remorse of him in his mind through his life. When Phoebe asked Holden about what Holden likes, he said he likes Allie, even though he passed away. “Just because somebody’s dead, you don’t just stop liking them, for God’s sake-especially if they were about a thousand times nicer than the people you know that’re alive and all.”(p.92), part of a conversation with Old Phoebe. When we look in deeper

In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield is a troubled teenager facing the world alone, unaware of the reasons behind his impulsive actions and uncontrolled emotions. Holden is a part of a wealthy family, but he can’t seem to find happiness after his little brother’s death. He remains angry at the world, unable to cope with his ‘depressing’ life. Salinger introduces the reader to Holden when he writes “lousy childhood” in Holden’s point of view, almost warning the reader of his terrible life. Salinger deliberately sets Holden apart in a psychoanalytical space claiming to the reader, “the first thing you’ll want to know is where I was born, what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me” (Salinger 1). Holden is angry and unhappy with his life and his family, but he remains unconscious towards the motivation or drive for these emotions. Holden is only susceptible to anger, not to reason.

This book presents the challenges of transitioning from a child to an adult. Not only that this book likes to distinguish that ignorance and aggression can lead to disaster. The reason for that is because the main character Holden Caulfield is a teenage boy who does nothing, but stay angry and pick fights with people. He constantly calls anyone who gets in his way or tries to bring him to reality a “phonie”. This book definitely discusses growing up though as Holden is trying to come to terms with being almost an adult and tries to almost fight it during the book.

Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D Salinger is a classic novel that is not only controversial but contains relatable characters such as Holden Caulfield. Holden is a 16 year old boy who has gone through so much pain and hurt throughout his life that he has given up in school and during the novel you start to see that he has given up at life itself as well. Holden struggles with depression, unhealthy drinking habits and with failing out of school. These three struggles are very relatable to teenagers these days. In the following paragraphs I will show you the connection between teenagers these days and Holden and the the similarities that make him such a relatable character. Holden is an ideal and universal representation of teenagers.

Innocence changes throughout your lifetime. As you age, whether you like it or not, more and more qualms will appear. In the book The Catcher in the Rye, the main character Holden Caufield, suffers from an identity crisis. He suffers from the confusion of behaving and acting on the problems he is faced with. He also struggles with the lack of parental attention and affection one needs.

Every teenager feels problems in their day to day life. How they face them is an entirely different story. Holden in the book The Catcher in the Rye is a great example of a teenager who can’t move past the grief of a brother and the process of growing up. Holden was just sixteen in Pencey prep when he decided that rather than waiting to go he got upset because of roommates and left. It also helped him not disappoint his parents.

Holden Caulfield plays a timeless character in the sense that his way of life is common for the American teenager, in his time as well as now. Today parents dread the terrible and confusing adolescent years of their child's life. In J.D. Salinger's book, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is in this terrible and confusing point of his life. At this point in his life, as well as in modern teenager's lives, a transition occurs, from child to adult. Holden takes this change particularly rough and develops a typical mentality that prevents him from allowing himself to see or understand his purpose in life.

J.D. Salinger wrote The Catcher in the Rye through the eyes of a boy named Holden Caulfield. Holden goes on a journey of self discovery after he is expelled from his third high school. Holden is faced with many challenges during his journey back home. Through Holden's interactions with other characters, The Catcher in the Rye tackles on the idea of what a typical teenager is. Holden would frequently lie to people for his own entertainment. He also doesn't back down, even if he ends up getting hurt. In both situations Holden has tried to start drama which makes him a typical teenager.

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.

Salinger's depiction of Holden Caulfield is considered one of the most convincing portrayals of an adolescent in literature. Intelligent, sensitive, and imaginative, Holden desires acceptance into the adult world even though he is sickened and obsessed by what he regards as its "phonies," including his teachers, parents, and his older