Caulfield

“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

Holden Caulfield: Navigating Through a World of Gray In Holden Caulfield’s mind, he lives in a world that can be split into two halves: the world of the innocent and the world of the corrupted. These worlds are equated with children and adults, respectively. He despises “the adult world and its cruelty and artificiality” (Chen) otherwise known as “phoniness”. With The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger explores an adolescent’s journey as he navigates through the gray area of an otherwise black and

protagonists, Miles and Holden, are both students at boarding schools during different time periods. Miles Halter (Pudge) is a new student at Culver Creek Preparatory School and came from a public school where he didn’t have any friends. Holden Caulfield attended a boarding school called Pencey Prep, until he got expelled. Both protagonists change a lot during the duration of the novel. The behaviour of both Miles and Holden in the beginning of their novels is quite different from the end. The immaturity

The character of Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in The Rye, is one of the most studied and theorized protagonists in literature to this day. He leaves critics mystified and speculating on the depths of the personality and the reasoning behind his actions. The story takes place in New York City following Holden’s explosion from a string of prestigious preparatory schools. Three days of meandering around the city gives the reader insight to his history and to the question of why, perhaps, he is

Should The Catcher in the Rye be banned from being taught at high schools? J.D. Salinger wrote this novel about a 16-year-old named Holden Caulfield. Holden is your not so average teenager. He is more of a “woe is me” kind of teenager. Holden has two siblings and one dead sibling He goes to expensive private schools, but flunks out of them because he doesn’t apply himself. The main part in this book is when Holden takes a three day vacation in New York City to get away from Pencey Prep and to let

protagonist Holden Caulfield describes and hints at how he wants sex in many parts of the story. In Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld’s first novel Prep, the main character Lee Fiora illustrates how she likes to think about doing sexual activities with other people and how she derives happiness from other people touching her. Because both Holden and Lee share related views about sex, they will be inclined to admire one another. As said by The Washington Post in their review of Prep, “Holden Caulfield would love

Holden Caulfield’s love of innocence and children, and his willingness to protect them from becoming the monster that Holden Caulfield has become. This is evident in Holden’s admiration for children, the symbolic meaning behind Holden’s definition of a “Catcher in the Rye”, and Holden’s hatred of adult’s unawareness of protecting the innocence of the youth. Holden Caulfield throughout the Catcher in the Rye has this admiration toward children, which is a direct contrast to his view of everyone being

revolutionized the literary world as he went down a path that ditched the old fashioned cliché. His award winning novel, The Catcher in the Rye, focuses on the deeper aspects of the journey of a young teenager who’s lost in his own emotions. Holden Caulfield, a disturbed, lonely high school student who was kicked out of three different schools takes part in an interesting experience when he stalls himself from going home after he was expelled. Holden’s bitter attitude and crippling awkwardness make his

main character, Holden Caulfield, as he travels around New York City. The book is certainly one of the novels to a lot of debate and controversy, however this is what makes it so captivating to read. Although The Catcher in the Rye isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, I personally found it relatable and engrossing. It contained a lot of brutal reality along with humour, contrasting with moments

in the Rye”. However, what makes this quote so interesting in this novel is that, for many people over the past 60 years, J.D. Salinger is that author to them when they read his novel. To everyone who has read the book; the main character, Holden Caulfield, is a character we can relate to on a spiritual level. Anyone can understand Holden’s thoughts and actions because the character talks directly to the reader. Unlike some other stories, when reading “The Catcher in the Rye”, the reader doesn’t feel