Holden Caulfield Tradlater

This passage proves that Holden is dissatisfied with the boys at his school, he believes they are fake and he does not social well with them. Although Holden doesn’t want to interact much, when he does end up interacting with people, he usually gets the short end of the stick. For instance he invites Ackley, a boy he meets at Pency Prep, along to the movies, but Ackley won't return the favor by letting Holden sleep in his roommate's bed. ‘“I’m not worried about it. Only, I’d hate like hell if Ely came in all of a sudden and found some guy-”’ (Salinger 49). Another instance is when Holden pays Sunny even though they don’t have sex, and ends up getting scammed. At a young age, Holden lost his younger brother, Allie. This had a huge traumatizing effect on him; Holden felt useless because he was unable to help his brother. Holden turns his emotions into anger; stating that he punched out all the windows in the garage. Another time Holden felt unable to help was when his peer, James Castle, was harassed and bullied, leading to James’s suicide. Holden says, “... and there was old James Castle laying right on the stone steps and all. He was dead, and his teeth, and blood, were all over the place, and nobody would even go near him. He had on this turtleneck sweater I'd lent him”’ (Salinger 170). Holden feels that society had

“The catcher in the Rye” by J.D Salinger is a novel narrated by a young teenage boy named Holden Caulfield. Holden insinuates that the location he was writing takes place in a mental institute where he is undergoing treatment for his breakdowns. The story begins in Pennsylvania at Pency Prep, the school he had been expelled from. He then recounts his adventures in New York City. Holden’s nature is viewed as anomalous due to his judgmental and critical personality. He enjoys philosophizing people and ridiculing their “Phoniness.” Consequently, he’s impulsive and fails to see the reality of the adult world. Holden shares personality “|

He tells her that would like to be a catcher in the rye because it would mean protecting children. Holden fears change and feels the need to protect his remaining childhood innocence. This is why he repeatedly gets kicked out of schools despite being an intelligent student. He tries to keep himself in the system so he won’t have to face the reality of growing up and being corrupted by becoming an adult. At the same time, Holden does seem like interested in growing up. Throughout the novel, Holden obsesses over sex. He basically demands Carl Luce tell him all about his sex life when they meet and repeatedly tells the reader how lustful he is at times. At one point, he even buys a prostitute but never actually has sex with her. This shows the duality of Holden’s idea of sex. While he brings it up so much it’s obviously he’s interested in it, he also explains that, despite having multiple chances to do it, he’s still a virgin. He seems to identify having sex with being grown up, ultimately regarding it as a dirty act. But still, Holden can’t get his mind off of it. Because of this, his ideals clash with his

Holden’s first betrayal was that of his memory and innocence by an egotistical peer. At Pencey Prep, he roomed with a student named Stradlater; the epitome of a teenage jock. Stradlater was openly very vain; as Holden stated as he watched Stradlater gaze at himself in the mirror, “he was madly in love with himself. He thought he was the handsomest guy in the Western Hemisphere” (27). Because of his

In the novel the Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield doesn't always know how to express himself. Holden has an interesting way to express his emotions towards woman, therefore, Holdens attitude towards women change. He doesn't always have the best way to express how he feels towards the women in his life. Holden does have some good relationships with some women. Holden tries to keep himself free to be with girls but he never actually goes and follows through. He tries to preserve himself from growing up. He tries to keep himself from change. Holden has a mood changing relationship with Sunny, an authentic relationship with Phoebe, and a fantasy relationship with Jane.

Rather, he is saddened by her sitting in his room in her slip. He imagines her buying the dress she has just taken off and realizes that she is a real person and not just a toy to be used for his pleasure. Holden's desire to understand and feel for other people stops him. Holden also admits to being a coward, but the reader realizes he is just a scared boy trying to act like a man in an adult world. Even so, he doesn't flinch in the face of danger when threatened by bullies, such as his roommate Stradlater or the pimp, Maurice. Much more important than his physical courage is the moral tenacity with which he clings to his beliefs in the face of a hostile society. (Lettis, 5)

     This is shown when Holden meets Sunny, a prostitute at a hotel. He pays her, but sends her back without having sex with her. He feels depressed and sorry for her. The next morning Holden has a date with an old girlfriend, Sally Hayes.

The novel “The Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger is about a 17-year-old boy named Holden. Holden gets in a very bad condition after his younger brother Allie dies from Leukemia. He gets mentally ill and suffers from serious depression. Holden goes through tough times in which he has a lot of trouble finding friends and keeping good relationships. Relationship and sexuality are big motifs in the novel, which come up very often. Holden is always on the look for a new friend but he always turns away in the last moment. When Holden interacts with women in the novel, he is very different than when he interacts with men. The women characters in the book all are very important because they represent and

Holden Claufield begins the story of The Catcher in the Rye by wandering around the streets of New York after being kicked out of another preparatory boarding school. His emotional state was still suffering from his brother’s death, being absent from his family, and living in a world that is full of “phonies”. While in the city Holden goes to bars, reaches out to an ex-girlfriend, invites a prostitute over, and meets up with his little sister Phoebe. Through his journey around New York, Claufield undergoes his own personal journey on an internal level. By using the city as a distraction from his struggles at school, he fully drowns into a world

In chapter thirteen, Holden admits his cowardice and “yellowness” after staging an imaginary showdown with the thief who stole his gloves at Pencey. Holden believes that if he was more assertive, then maybe he would have gotten a girl already. Juxtaposed to Holden, Maurice holds all the strength and assertiveness that Holden wishes for. Maurice strikes fear into Holden and is Sunny’s boss. Sunny on the other hand is a much worse off version of Holden. Holden describes her as close to his age and notices her nervousness. Contrary to her name, Sunny works a night job and comments that she spends the day sleeping. Holden tries to buy a conversation from her, but Sunny is impersonal and insists on just doing her job. While Holden still retains a sense of innocent morality, Sunny is already infused with the seediness of her lifestyle. Their interactions show that though both aren’t living the goodlife, at least Holden isn’t as far gone as

Throughout The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, incorporates numerous themes. However, the two most important themes throughout the book were innocence and loneliness. Holden’s innocence is constantly changing as he matures throughout the story. Furthermore, Holden has to deal with the effects of embarking on his journey throughout the story with loneliness. Salinger’s message during the 1940’s shows how American society and the growth of the teenage boy remains the same throughout

Holden checks into the Edmont Hotel in Manhattan, where he hired a young prostitute named Sunny, but didn’t sleep with her. The scene depicts Holden’s struggle of coming to adulthood. Holden thought that by sleeping with a prostitute would make him a man. However, when he was confronted in the burgeoning sexual situation, he yielded. After all he is still just a kid. “The trouble was, I just didn’t want to do it. I felt more depressed than

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

Holden’s relationship with his own dorm room members while at Pencey Prep shows how Holden recognizes people who are genuine, while ignores or de -legitimizes people he feels

Catcher in the Rye starts off with Holden Caufield, the main character, alone at the top of Thomsen Hill above Pencey Prep. Holden has gotten kicked out of Pencey along with numerous other schools. Laziness is the reason of Holdens lack of success in school like many teenage boys. He goes back to his dorm and starts reading the book Out of Africa when his doofus roommate Robert Ackley walks in. His description to meet is just that awkwardly tall kid, like myself but with poor hygiene. Holdens roommate, Stradlater comes in and tells them about a date he is going on with none other than Holdens old fling named Jane Gallagher. Stradlater has a carefree attitude for her calling her by the wrong name multiple times. Stradlater also asks Holden to write an English composition for him since that is the only class Holden is not failing. Holden reluctantly agrees and that is when we get our first taste of why he is such an angry kid. He writes about his little brother named Allie who died a few years before of Leukemia. He specifically wrote about his baseball glove that he wrote poems on so he