I'm Crazy

Anyway, it was the Saturday of the football game. […] I remember around three o'clock that afternoon 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 bashing each other all over the place. […] You could hear them all yelling. (Chapter 1 Page 2) This quote is significant to The Catcher in the Rye because it displays the ongoing theme of isolation throughout the novel. Holden clues the readers immediately by illustrating

That's all I 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.” As Holden enters the Museum of National History, his fears change into difficulty. He likes everything easily understandable. He is afraid to admit fear but only admits it in a few instances such

under your nose. I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a tombstone and all, it'll say "Holden Caulfield" on it, and then what year I was born and what year I died, and then right under that it'll say "Fuck you." I'm positive, in fact.’’(204) Holden, in Salinger's Catcher in the Rye is faced with a series of internal conflicts throughout the story. In the beginning, Holden is introduced as a very negative adolescent boy who is unwilling to face adulthood, but throughout

reader's curiosity to why Holden is so uncomfortable, “Then something happened. I don’t like to talk about it…” Holden began to retell, “ ‘What the hellya doing?’ I said. ‘Nothing! I’m simply sitting here, admiring-’ (Mr. Antolini)... I know more damn perverts, at school and all, they’re always being perverty when I’m around.” (192). Holden’s discomfort highlights the ignored truth to teachers in boarding school, while explaining the differences of perverted attraction and appropriate conduct. Holden’s

include when he says things like "You'd have liked her [Allie]". Here he gives us the illusion that he’s right there talking at you. In most cases, he would describe places and people as “phony” or “corny”. He'll occasionally swear and say things like “I’m sweating like a bastard”. The writing is very informal, as if he is talking directly to you and I think it’s that, apart from the character and plot, that keeps people interested in the book. It’s kind of as if you are truly getting to know the character

Holden has well I wouldn't say communication problems but very close to it. I see that when he goes on the date with Sally Hayes it exhibited his difficulty at cooperating with others. At first, he gives us a dire impression of Sally, “I wasn’t too crazy about her, but I’d known her for years.” (slainger105) I see that holden doesn't want to necessary express himself and suppress his feeling and affection to seem he is tough. I would implore holding to go out in the world and act like how he really

around – 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 and 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 its crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy.” Holden Caulfield’s response and the way Robert

Holden is convinced that everyone is phony mainly because he believes the world is simple and that everyone should be as innocent and honest as children are. “I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera.” (Chapter 3, sentence one). Holden is an example that the world isn’t as simple as he would like it to be. The fact that he is a liar himself

For instance, when Holden said, “Then, just to show you how crazy I am, when we were coming out of this big clinch, I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie, of course, but the thing is, I meant it when I said it. I'm crazy. I swear to God I am,” he goes against everything he has said throughout the book. In the book, Holden constantly states how other people don’t understand the world and

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(Salinger 173). Holden exhibits the madness described before at often times throughout the book and in the end it ends up sending him to a sanitarium. He knows he has become mad and he even tells himself this many times in the book; but he never really believes it. One time in the book when he displays this madness is, Wadsworth 4. "But I'm crazy I swear to God I am. About