How Does Holden Convince Mr. Antolini

When Holden goes back to visit his old school, he notices inappropriate graffiti on one of the bathroom stalls. Holden thinks about how this affects the children and imagines himself catching the “pervert bum” who wrote it. Holden says, “I kept picturing myself catching him at it, and how I'd smash his head on the stone steps till he was good and goddam dead and bloody.” (221). He imagines himself taking such a drastic action of killing the pervert because he wants to protect the children. This situation pertains to his relationship with Mr. Antolini. Initially Holden admires Mr. Antolini and recognizes him as one of the best teachers he’s ever had, but he soon notices a flaw. Holden is woken up by Mr. Antolini petting his head, which could have arguably been in a fatherly way but Holden perceives it as perverted. Holden says, “I started putting on my damn pants in the dark. I could hardly get them on I was so damn nervous. I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around.” (212). The fact that Holden was “so damn nervous” proves how fearful Holden is, and how he truly believes that Mr. Antolini is making advances on him. Later on, Holden says, “I mean I wondered if just maybe I was wrong about thinking be was making a flitty pass at me.” (214). Although Holden second

Holden thinks he’s alone. There’s no one that’s ever there for him. We all feel like that one point in our life, do we not? Then we get depressed or even confused. Because of this whenever someone tries to help he pushes them away, scared of what kind of changes might come. This leads to the suicide thoughts. One example is in chapter 14, “What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window” (104). He said this phrase after having angering a prostitute because he just wanted to talk. Talking is a great way of avoiding negative thoughts, and Holden just wanted to have someone there to listen to him for once, but he could never find such a person until near the end. Throughout the novel only one person listened to him, and one person tries to be there for him. These two were his English teacher, Mr. Antolini, and his sister Phoebe. The attempted support from Mr. Antolini

Mr. Antolini’s piece of advice dives deeper into what is preventing Holden from obtaining his sanity.

Before being a teenager was recognized as a part of human growth there was an awkward bridge between childhood and adulthood. In “The Catcher in The Rye” Holden Caulfield finds teenagehood to be an awkward bridge with depression and loneliness. J.D. Salinger, the author of the novel, uses Holden’s depression to make him flawed and unreliable. Holden’s flaws and unreliability makes him the perfect depiction of a teenager going through depression. The death of Allie was the main catalyst of Holden’s depression.

In Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden must find his place in society while combating his very closed minded personality. Holden experiences multiple changes in his attitude, demeanor, and egotism. He transitions from feeling superior to all his ‘phony’ peers, to understanding that he must try fit in with the crowd. He makes up many excuses for his narcissistic and overly-independent personality, blaming those around him for not being authentic enough, and blaming his teachers for giving him bad grades. He seems to feel lost as an individual, not knowing how to succeed, while still following his principles and being independent.

Antolini. When Holden appears at his door late at night, sad and nowhere else to go, Mr. Antolini and his wife give Holden a place to sleep and some coffee. Mr. Antolini talks over Holden’s life and decisions, but he does so in a way that suggests to Holden that he needs to grow up, but not in an outright humiliating fashion like Mr. Spencer. Holden feels, because of this, that Mr. Antolini accepts him where he is, even if he does not approve of all that Holden is doing. Holden is content to have finally found some place to stay where he can be safe and welcomed. A short while later, Holden finds that his approval from Mr. Antolini reaches a little farther than Holden had thought when he wakes up to find Mr. Antolini petting his hair. Finally, Holden rejects someone else and leaves Mr. Antolini, unnerved by the encounter. He had finally found another who accepted and cared for him without dwelling on his actions, but he did not find comfort in this for very

In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist, Holden, is seen as a rebellious child that goes against what anyone says. He cares little for school and mainly cares for his little sister. As the name of the story suggests it, he cares about protecting his little sister, but even then he still has troubles in his life.

Holden Caulfield is the main character of the novel The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger. The story is developed in the Mid-twentieth Century, in the United States, and it is narrated in first person by Holden, a sixteen years old teenager, who is influenced by the society at that time. The fact that the book is narrated by the main character, let the reader know not only the events that have been taken place during Holden’s journey in New York, but also, the reader can know everything that Holden thinks about each situation, letting Holden’s mind exhibited to analyze. From the first moment, it is easy to realize that Holden is a character with a difficult personality, a very opinionated mind, a strong point of view, and a massive list of negative traits, which made him one of the most interesting and confusing characters in all of literature. Holden is unique in many ways. Unfortunately, his many weaknesses, reflected throughout the novel, overpower his strengths, due to Holden’s tendency to judge people, to isolate himself and take bad decisions, which push him further into a trench of loneliness and depression. All over the story, Holden frequently wishes himself dead or decides he already is dying from something, in this order, let analyze this Holden traits with more attention

it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom.” Mr. Antolini believes that Holden is becoming a bitter, angry person who will end up hating everything and everyone. He feels as if Holden has no sense of direction in life. If he continues to take life nonchalantly, Holden could possibly reach rock bottom and not even know it.

Holden Caulfield is the main character in the novel The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger. The story is developed in the Mid-twentieth Century, in the United States, and it is narrated in first person by Holden, a sixteen years old teenager, who is influenced by the society at that time. The fact that the book is narrated by the main character, let the reader know not only the events that have been taken place during Holden’s journey in New York, but also, the reader can know everything that Holden thinks about each situation, letting Holden’s mind exhibited to analyze. From the first moment, it is easy to realize that Holden is a character with a difficult personality, a very opinionated mind, a strong point of view, and a massive list of negative traits, which made him one of the most interesting and confusing characters in all of literature. Holden is unique in many ways. Unfortunately, his many weaknesses, reflected throughout the novel, overpower his strengths, due to Holden’s tendency to judge people, to isolate himself and take bad decisions, which push him further into a trench of loneliness and depression.

In The Catcher in The Rye Mr. Antolini claims “the mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one”. The notion of maturity and growing up are some of the central themes of the book. Holden is just a young and lonely boy struggling to find his place in the world. He is fairly intelligent, but doesn’t apply himself at all. Holden is irritated by other people and has trouble connecting with them.

Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in J. D Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, is a conflicted young man, being pulled between the life adults want him to live and the life he still hasn’t figured out yet. While teachers tell him school is the path to success, he remains disgusted with the entire institution itself. While people try to make connections with him, he pushes them way as if they were nuclear missiles waiting to blow up his entire world. All of these emotions tied up into one teenage boy have the makings for a disaster. What kept Holden from reaching this point, during his journey back home after flunking school at Pencey Prep, was his encounter with two nuns at breakfast one morning .

Antolini made a move on him. When Holden visited Mr. Antolini, he was drinking and had complimented him by telling him how handsome he was. This could have been seen as something more than a compliment, but Holden does not react until he wakes in the middle of the night. The book writes, “What he was doing was, he was sitting on the floor right next to the couch, in the dark and all, and he was sort of petting me or patting me on the goddam head. Boy, I'll bet I jumped about a thousand feet” (Salinger 78) Holden had quickly left house, claiming that he was pervert, and that men have tried to make moves on him in the past. On the other hand, critics claim Holden was overreacting, and that Mr. Antolini was giving him a friendly pat on the head and that Holden’s mind revolved around sexuality, and was making the situation into something that it wasn’t. It could be looked it at either way, but it still shows the paranoia of sexual encounters in the book. The setting of the book was the 1950’s, so the majority of people were extremely uncomfortable with even the thought of homosexuality, which is why Holden acted so irrationally, and fled the scene. Holden is still discovering his own sexuality, the possibility that Mr. Antolini had made a mood on him, left him abandoned and

Antolini did not clearly make his goals and desires known. From what the reader knows, he has a desire to help others. This is made known when Holden tells a story of when a classmate committed suicide, and Mr. Antolini was the only person to touch the bleeding body

Throughout the book Holden has given readers clues on his past and the possibility of PTSD. After his visit back home, Holden decided to go to Mr. Antolini’s house. Mr. Antolini was the only adult that is not phony and he also acts like his guardian unlike his parents. The parents don’t really care for Holden or Phoebe. They just keep sending him away to boarding schools, and leave Phoebe alone at home even though she is ten years old. Also, when Holden smokes inside the house and the parents come in Phoebe takes the blame and all they say to her is to put it out completely. The parents did not really seemed to understand him, but Mr. Antollini did. Holden thought of him as a hero. When a kid, James Castle committed suicide, everybody just