Joan Fontaine

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

In this essay i will explain women roles during the western civilizations times. Using the book “Sources Of The Western Tradition” Volume 1 by Marvin Perry as well as some other sources to gather even more support in this essay. Women in ancient times i feel played a big role in the fall of some empires. Not having a public voice women used other ways to make impacts in their times . During the middle ages women were basically 2nd class members with the expectations of having control of the household

First Draft: I traveled all the way from New York to California just to see Holden Caulfield, and although he was in a mental facility, I found a friend who worked there that could help me visit him legally. I walked in there and the first thought I had was "Why is he even here?" Holden looked perfectly healthy to me, he was tall, had wide shoulders, a bit muscular, and his cheek bones gave him that thirties looks. anyway, I introduced my self and the purpose of being there, he was very welcoming

The Catcher in the Rye is about a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield who doesn’t exactly fit in with his society. We know he doesn’t fit it because in the first scene Holden decides not to attend his school’s football game, which most people attend. Holden is a very opinionated person who criticizes most things. Hold did not belong in the 1940’s idea of a perfect society. But, would Holden Caulfield fit in to today’s society? Holden Caulfield would be more critical of today’s society. Holden would

A young man going through puberty, not knowing what he is doing or where he is headed, in a world in which he feels he doesn't belong in, and feels he is always around a bunch of "phonies." This would describe the position of Holden Caulfield, the main character in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) written by J.D. Salinger. The book, all narrated by Holden in first person, in its very unique and humorous style, is about Holden, and all the troubles he has encountered through school, family, friends

At a first glance, Sam Monroe is a character who one could easily assume is a very angst-filled, lonely, and misunderstood teenager. This being said, it is no secret that Sam is quite troubled, in fact his appearance and moodiness are a clear cry for help and attention and could be signs of severe depression. His cry goes unanswered as his family is too busy and selfish to be bothered with his needs, turning him into an equally selfish person. Sam takes out his frustration by doing drugs, as seen

Ans: In the book “The Sociological Imagination”, the author C. Wright Mills begins by describing the perilous situation of the American man during the 1950s. He describes they situation as one of internment and frailty. Mills sees men as restricted by the routines of their daily lives. They go to their jobs and become workers, they go home and are family men. The American men of the 1950s were in a state of powerlessness due to the effects of World War Two and the looming threat of nuclear warfare

The definition of existential anxiety is the negative feeling that arises in a human being. In the novel, Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, the main character, Holden narrates events that happen after his school, Pencey, kicked him out for his deficient grades.With signs of this anxiety, he quickly finds himself in a state of depression caused by his struggle of growing up. Overwhelmed and afraid, Holden runs the other direction when he is hit with the idea of aging and his immature and innocent

In J. D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, we are introduced to an intriguing character named Holden Caulfield. In this narrative, Holden summarizes what happens to him in the past, over a period of three days, starting from when he is in Pencey Prep, an expensive boarding school in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. During this time, Holden goes through many internal hardships and dilemmas, mainly focusing on his view of society and people around him, acting “phony”. This feeling could be explained