Holden Caulfield Essays

I guessed they would have to come. With the headmaster being so ‘worried’ about me and all. He was that kind of guy. If he thought you were a real lost case he’d get your parents in just so he could humiliate you before he chucked you out. My parents …

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 …

J.D Salinger has made the main character and narrator, Holden Caulfield, very complex. He has many good qualities that help the reader to sympathize with him. However throughout the novel the reader comes to realize that Holden’s behaviour around other characters often contradicts the opinions he has expressed to t …

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, …

A. Presentation of the Problem In the book The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield became a model of the rebellious and confused adolescent who detected the “phoniness” of the adult world. This showed that he had a serious psychological problem. From the start to the end, Holden has no …

Ever experienced what you had always believed in turned out to be opposite? Most people were aware of it, yet chose not to apprehend reality when they grew up. They had made too many decisions based on their misguided beliefs that it involved too much losses or changes if they …

There comes a time in life when one believes that they are surrounded by nothing but fallaciousness and deception. In J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, a 16-year-old boy, travels to New York to try to escape the corrupt events that have transpired in his life. While …

The Tortured Road of AdolescencePatrick RoyleCentral to J.D Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” and Russell Banks “Rule of the Bone” is the theme of change. Both male protagonists – Holden Caulfield and Chappie Dorset – transform, while traversing the tortured path from adolescence to adulthood. Both young men have …

J.D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye” portrays a troubled teen in New York City. Over the few days the novel depicts, the boy displays his critical and unhealthy mindset. Eventually he has a mental breakdown. Through psychoanalysis of Holden Caulfield, one may suggest that Allie’s death, social development, and …

J.D. Salinger gives Holden a realistic voice and perspective that the reader can identify with. We are able to understand how Holden has come to view this world of his through his past experiences and reactions to life’s situations. He is a very unique character that doesn’t exactly fit into …