Crazy People

the story of a high school junior Samantha-Sam. She suffers from Purely-Obsessional OCD, but does not want anyone to find out about it. She is a part of a group of popular girls, the “Crazy Eights”, her so called friends, she has known since elementary school. Sam hides her secret even from her “best friends”. The Crazy Eights not understanding her disorder is not the only reason she keeps it under wraps. She yearns to fit in and feel and seem like a normal teenager, just like everyone

Holden also shows his concern for younger children when he was sitting down and noticed something crazy. “Somebody'd written "Fuck you" on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little

conserving the innocence of individuals. Innocence is a crucial theme that plays a part in this novel that Holden is very concerned about for not only himself, but others. This struggle is what creates his upbringings and responsibility for helping younger people including his sister and others

Salinger’s use of symbolism. He pictures little kids playing in the field, there being “nobody big” around, except him, explaining how this job was just for him, and he wanted to be the only one to do it. He explains “standing on the edge of some crazy cliff” and “catching everybody if they start to go over the cliff”, protecting and saving them from falling from it accidentally. Catching them wouldn’t only save them from falling, but it would put him at risk of falling, rather than them. From Holden’s

cared for by someone. Holden also has very high expectations of himself, “I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know its crazy but that’s the only thing I really care to be.” (Pg173). The catcher in the Rye is someone who catches people in the Rye. He expresses his want for a job like this; that by doing this he would no longer experience depression, that helping people would be enough for him.

Towards the end of the novel Holden gets really dramatic and freaks out about writings on a wall “I saw something that drove me crazy, Somebody written “F**k you” on the wall//it drove me crazy//I wanted to kill whoever written it.” Holden also hated the “Ivy League bastards” he states “ I wouldn't go to on of those Ivy League colleges, if I was dying, for God’s sake.” The little irrelevant things that arouses

Holden is attending Pencey Prep, he believes he is better than everyone and that he is unique. Holden alienates himself because he thinks he is above the rest of society, while in reality, he is antisocial, and he does not interact well with other people. “It was the saturday of the football game. [...] I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill. You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams.” (1). While the rest of the school is together watching the football

For example, the reason he left Elkton Hills is because he thinks all the people there are phonies. He saw Mr.Haas shook hands with funny looking parents and gave them a phony smile. And he walked away to start talking someone else’s parents for maybe a half an hour. He says “I can’t stand that stuff. It drives me crazy. It makes me so depressed I go crazy. I hated that goddamn Elkton Hills.”(Salinger, 14) Holden thinks that adults are insincere and hypocritical

The book, “The Catcher in the Rye” was a book with a very intriguing character named Holden Caulfield. Holden was set to be someone who didn’t like many people nor did he get along well in society. Holden also wasn’t the smartest person nor the was he the most interesting guy but he did go through many things that put him through stress. Many people say that Holden can be described as having angst, anguish, and depression. Holden Caulfield mental problem could be that he have post traumatic stress

One must inevitably confront the daunting face of adulthood. In J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger depicts the disheartening journey from adolescence to adulthood that Holden Caulfield endures. Although holden seeks the freedoms that mark adulthood, he has yet to take up the role of a truly mature citizen as the society conforming nature of those adults disgust him, leading him to his gradual mental decline. J. D. Salinger uses the immature character of Holden Caulfield as a means