Hyperbole Quotes From The Catcher In The Rye

Quote: “I’d tell you the rest of the story, but I might puke if I did” (p. 154).

The passage begins on an unusual high note, with Holden’s three upbeat words, “The best thing.” But, by the end of the first sentence, Salinger hints that Holden’s reasoning might be more characteristically dark. To Holden, the best thing about the Museum is that “everything always stayed right where it was.” The reader isn’t sure what Holden means. “Nobody’d move,” he explains as a clarification, as if the reader would now understand. It isn’t until the third try that that Holden’s reasoning is clear. He likes that the displays of Eskimos, deer, and birds are frozen in action and never change. “Nobody’d be different” he repeats, completing the idea using Salinger's signature technique of repetition to drive the point home. To Holden, “the best thing” about the museum is that it never changes, unlike the real people in his

He left 3 days before they were supposed to go home for winter break. He goes to a hotel for at least a week and walks around the city. He does not want to go home and face his parents mostly his father because Holden has got kicked 3 other private schools and his dad would “kill him.” Holden’s sister Phoebe says to him “I suppose you failed in every single subject again.” His little sister was not surprised at all that he failed out of his school again. Phoebe is 10 years old giving her bigger brother a talk about why he’s not good in school. Phoebe should not be able to give his older brother advise because she is the younger one. Holden should be mature enough to lead his sister to do good overall in life by facing his

“There was this one boy at Elkton Hills, named James Castle, that wouldn’t take back something he said about this very conceited boy, Phil Stabile James Castle called him a very conceited guy, and one of Stabile lousy friends went and squealed on him to Stabile. So Stabile, with six other dirty bastards, went down to James Castle’s room and went in and locked the goddamn door… He jumped out the window... He was dead, and his teeth, and blood were all over the place and nobody would even go near him.” (Page 188) Analysis:

“He always looked good when he was finished fixing himself up, but he was a secret slob anyway, if you knew him the way I did.” (27) INTERTEXTUAL CONNECTION: The weather was quite hot, as Stradlater and Holden went down to the can. While Holden sat down beside Stradlater, turning the cold water on and off, Stradlater whistled while he shaved. The above quote demonstrates how you cannot say that you know a person fully until you have known them for a long time.

Holden is constantly using crude phrases that would have shocked the original readers of the book. This is to represent the fact that Holden is trying to merge with the adult world and he assumes that by using more ‘adult’ language he can achieve this. The present day Holden refers to most of the people he met during the time he was in New York as ‘’Old.’’ This helps him to disassociate himself with the past and shows that he feels it is a different part of his life. So although during his ‘journey of discovery’ Holden appears not to have emotionally progressed towards adulthood, clearly he has now evolved and grown up, be it just a

Holden's constantly telling that he is different from everyone else, who he defines as "phonies", wearing his hunting cap to make him standout in society, and inability to make a social contact with a Jane Gallagher, who he constantly brings up, are just a few lucid examples of his self-alienation of society. Holden feels and uses this alienation to protect himself from the harshness of society is this constant defense mechanism eventually leads to his

Throughout the course of the novel, Holden goes on a road of self-discovery. This concept is explained by American author Alan Alda when he says “You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition (Alda,1980)”. What you 'll

• “Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.” (ch.2 p.5)

“There's a word I really hate. It's a phony. I could puke every time I hear it” (Salinger 5). Considering the amount of times Holden Caulfield uses the word to describe something or someone, he must hate the whole world. The words phony, pervert, and screwball are recurring concepts, or motifs, in “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger. They are used many times to describe all sorts of people, places, and objects. Although he might sound like he is just being unpleasant, these words describe how he sees the world and why he ends up getting treatment. The way people expresses themselves reflects what they feel on the inside. The words phony, pervert, and screwball all interplay into

The quote, “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.” This quote relates to Holden’s seeing himself of becoming the catcher in the rye. Told to him by Mr. Antolini, the quote represents Holden being immature, and that he should not dwell on one cause and live his life. Mr. Antolini believes Holden is still immature and needs to realize his reality.

Holden’s immaturity causes him many problems throughout the story. Although he is physically mature, he acts more like a child. “All of a sudden I

In this quote Holden is fighting with his roommate Stradlater about Stradlater how he goes around giving girls “the time”, but not even caring about them and how they feel. “He didn’t care was because he was a goddamn stupid moron. He hated it when you called him a moron… ‘you don’t even know if her first name is Jane or Jean, ya goddamn moron!” (Salinger 44). Holden is acting like a child, calling Stradlater a moron knowing that he hates being called a moron, just to annoy and aggravate him.

He drinks, he smokes and rebel against both his teachers and adults. Holden is a very negative person and is constantly trashing other people, if not he is lying to them. He likes calling people ‘phonies’, even tough he acts like a phony himself. And this is his hefty scare, he is terrified of growing up, yet he realises it is time for his body is changing and turning him into a man. Holden has had an uncomplicated life if you disregard away from his brother’s death. He comes from a good family, has never lacked anything and has agreeable opportunities. An instead of using this to his advantage, he gets sucked down into a pessimistic and sad vortex. He never feels at home anyplace or feels a strong connection to people. Rebelling is an ordinary thing to go through in your adolescence and Holden has it bad. He is indeed a ‘rebel without a

He may still be a young boy but he is very independent and basically lives on his own for the entirety of the book, but his negative outlook transforms independence into isolation. He is incredibly lonely but also pushes people away when he has a chance to get close to them. Such as his date with Sally Hayes which was going very well until he pushed her away with his harsh words, “You give me a royal pain in the ass, if you want to know the truth” (Ch. 17 pg. 173). Just because Sally wouldn’t run away with him and be independent with him he pushed her away. Holden may think he wants to be free and independent but his negative outlook just feeds his loneliness and