Crazy People

above taking a bus tour of Niagara Falls. He loved ballet and he was enthusiastic about the ballet, reveling in a London performance of a Balanchine presentation and Swan Lake at the Opèra de Paris. That same year, Salinger lamented that only two people had ever truly known him as person: his son, Matthew, and his beloved dog, Benny, the dog that Salinger had brought home from Germany in 1946 and who had died nearly thirty years before. For a moment, Salinger seriously considered abandoning writing

nobody big, I mean – except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff – I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy." (181). Once again Holden is trying to help maintain the innocence

An Alternate View In the novel the Catcher in the Rye, author J.D. Salinger writes about the life of a 17 year old boy who drastically differs from the rest of the teenager population because of his alternate point of view on life. This non-typical teenager with the name of Holden Caulfield has a negative perspective on everything he and others do, and does not attempt to find the light in certain situations. While teenagers may not attempt to find the best in a certain outcome, they tend to have

Holden is a rather popular individual in literary fiction, and can be described as many things. But in my opinion, I believe Holden is a very ambivalent character, meaning that he has contradictory ideas about the people he socializes with and his environment. Throughout the book, Holden is arguably searching for companionship in New York, however, he is constantly

by growing up and to move on Holden uses this negativity and isolation to protect him. Holden tries show that he is better than everybody else as this is the little stability he has left. When in reality Holden is just scared of the interaction of people because they just submerge him with complications he doesn 't know not yet how to deal with. Holden not being be able to cope with the idea of growing up adds to his loneliness which is the core of his pain. When his encounters first interaction in

In the book, “The Catcher in the Rye”, by J.D Salinger introduces Holden as a rowdy character who values Feminism more than the people around him. He also admires many of the women around him such as Jane and his younger sister Phoebe. In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden’s remarks and behavior characterizes his thoughts on feminism. By Holden expressing his views and wanting to try to keep the children young and not grow up hints towards the lens of feminism. For most of the book Holden

J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is based on Holden Caufield, a 16-year-old boy, who gets kicked out of Pencey Prep due to flunking four out of five courses. Before Holden decides to tell his parents about Pencey, he decides to go to New York. Holden has three siblings, Phoebe, D.B and Allie. The three important symbols that represent the theme of the book are the Red Hunting Hat, Swear words on the walls and the Ducks on Central Lagoon Park. Holden wants to be the Catcher in the Rye and prevent

it is about a young boy who is on the search for a purpose he talks to many people while he is on the search to see what kind of advices the people give him. Throughout the story holden wants to stay a Catcher in the Rye. Holden is struggling to become a young adult throughout the story.The first example is when he is fascinated thru the streets of New York.”my bags were there and all,and I figured I’d sleep in that crazy waiting room where all the benches are”.This quote shows that Holden is not

the opposite. This novel would be categorized as a literary debacle due to the type of writing style, diction, and literary elements that Salinger uses. First, the whole novel is very anticlimactic. The story builds and builds with all of Holden’s crazy adventures and never really hits a definitive climax. One possible climax could be when Holden states, “It was just that she looked damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could’ve been there”

the most remarkable science-fiction movies to ever be produced. They would use absurd creatures or people that disappear to represent the current events. For example Hollywood produced many TV’s shows that gave the illusion of how well