Joan Chen

In The Catcher in the Rye, a harrowed teenager named Holden Caulfield can’t accept the fact that everyone has to grow up. He gets kicked out of his old school and sets of on a wandering adventure throughout a bunch of cities including New York and Agerstown, Pennsylvania. As we get to know Holden, we find out that he believes that every adult in some way is corrupted in a sense. He also believes that children are the only genuine thing in the world due to their innocence and their purity. Salinger

Friendships are like goals; they are easy to make but difficult to keep. J.D Salinger’s character Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye is a lonesome sixteen-year-old. Salinger’s novel follows the story of Holden as he tries to rescue children’s innocence from being lost to the crippling world of adulthood. Although he perceives his friends as fake, Holden tries to flatter his roommate Stradlater and old friend Sally Hayes into becoming a person like Jane Gallagher: someone that will listen

Throughout The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden Caulfield, not only tries to figure out his identity but also his life’s purpose. Inside of Holden Caulfield’s progression through life lie “patterns of insubordination and unwillingness to grow up”, which will only dissolve when he realized and accepts the reality of his personality and purpose (Tolchin). His identity and purpose, once discovered, shape the way he communicates and interacts with others. Once Caulfield discovers and accepts

Holden’s Coming of Age Journey “Then I went over and laid down on Ely's bed. Boy, did I feel rotten. I felt so damn lonesome”(Salinger 48). Holden Caulfield is the main character in the book The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, where he is telling his coming of age story. He struggles with depression after his brother's death and continues to struggle with it throughout the book. Holden is a troubled character that goes through many experiences that helped him learn lessons about the world.

Flappers What is a flapper? The flapper is one of the most essential parts of the 1920s. They represented a new type of woman. Whether in attitude, attire, or slang. The 1920s flapper demonstrated how women could transform into something that is a part of the modern construction of women’s identity. The flapper was a major part of “The Roaring Twenties”. The flapper was how young women sought to define themselves. Prior to the 1920s American women were seen in a very traditional light

“It killed me, it really did.” Remember this phrase from somewhere? It’s the line Holden Caulfield says every time in the iconic novel; The Catcher in the Rye. Since the book was published in 1951 by J.D. Salinger, many people from all over the world have loved it. This book was even carried by the killer of John Lennon, and was banned in the past. The protagonist Holden Caulfield is a 16-year-old boy who has just gotten expelled from his Prep school. And until the end, the story is has been about

The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger describes the changes of Holden Caulfield as he encounters many dissimilar girls throughout the book. Phoebe Caulfield, his sister, means a lot to Holden when he tries to protect her from everything. Sunny is someone Holden wants to befriend due to her lost innocence and reality of life. Phoebe Caulfield and Sunny are female characters in the novel who affected Holden’s life in very different ways. Holden and Phoebe had a close and important relationship

Holden Caulfield, the protagonists in J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, is one of many rebels in the history of literature. Holden is a 16-year-old boy that failed yet another school. He travels to New York just before Christmas to have one last adventure before coming to terms with his reality. He criticizes the phoniness of the adult world and attempts to escape the corruption that comes with it. Since the beginning of the novel, Holden’s brother Allie represents untouched innocence, which Holden

After being expelled for the fourth time, Holden Caulfield is fed up with life and how the school system treats him. He feels as though he doesn’t fit in with society and no one wants him. Holden Caulfield is a teenage boy who has many issues including fear of growing up and change. He has a thirst for individuality but just can not quite find a way to express himself. J.D. Salinger utilizes many symbols in The Catcher In The Rye to provide insight on what the protagonist is feeling or thinking.

Childhood: a time when kids are the purest and hidden from the dangers of the adult hood. In J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye the main character, sixteen year old Holden Caulfield faces many challenges over the course of a long weekend in which he adulterates the innocence he tries so hard to hold on to. After losing his younger brother to illness, Holden finds himself alienating the world around him and pushing people that he loves, and that love him away. The novel is set in a cold and dour