Catcher In The Rye Essays

A respectable text discusses and presents the reader with insights into the nature of ourselves and our world, evidently shown by J.D Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye, a classic bildungsroman narrated by an unreliable, depressed and archetypal teenager. Salinger exposes the pop-cultured, materialistic society post World War II, …

Intro: The Austrian psychiatrist Wilhelm Stekal once said: “the mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of an immature man is he wants to live humbly for one. I believe he’s trying to tell us that the main difference …

I sat next to her once in the bus from Agerstown and we sort of struck up a conversation.”She wasn’t exactly amazing to look at, but she was a nice enough girl. Someone who you could have intelligent conversation with, one of the very few people I met during my …

On the evening of December 8, 1980, Mark David Chapman calmly approached John Lennon outside of his apartment, pulled out a gun and fired five steady shots, four of which hit their mark. As the former Beatle, semi-conscious, lay on the ground haemorrhaging, Chapman pulled out his copy of The …

Holden’s favourite saying is “if you really want to know the truth.” I am going to give my views on what I feel to be “the truth” about Holden Caulfield. Holden has relationships with many different people throughout the book. I am going to start by writing about some of …

During this essay, I will be discussing how Salinger presents Holden’s relationships with females as throughout the novel he meets several females; however Holden meets many different characters in the novel, both male and female and while many of his experiences with the opposite sex end up being negative. Furthermore …

What is it that defines the infamous teenage years that everyone at one point or another goes through? Is it all the struggle of trying to break through the crowd or the stress of facing the endless conflicts that didn’t exist when you were a child? Maybe it’s the pain …

Salinger, author of the teenage novel ‘The Catcher in the Rye’, presents the character of Holden Caulfield to have both weak and strong qualities. He shows this through the use of his linguistic techniques. At a first glance it seems that the character of Holden only has weak points however, …

Likeable. When looked up in the dictionary produces synonyms such as ‘nice and pleasant’, words which would not be associated with Holden Caulfield, the main character in the novel ‘Catcher in the Rye’. However, I want to explore a different meaning to the word likeable, a version that brackets Holden’s …

The reliability of the narrators in both Wuthering Heights and Catcher In The Rye are vital to the way we respond to the novels, and they style they use is also equally important. In this essay I will outline exactly how the narrators style and reliability affect the readers perceptions. …