He has got a certain opinion about whatever he sees. This incident is the beginning of Holden's realization that can not become true: his dream.Īnother character trait of Holden is that he is quite sensitive. He discovers that he cannot get rid off this one. Later on he finds "fuck-you" scratched with a knife. Holden carefully rubs this off with his hand so as to protect the innocent children from reading it. He encounters a "fuck-you" written on the wall. One good example is when Holden is delivering the note to his sister.
As an evidence for that you can take his caring about his little sister Phoebe. In the center of his protective instinct are children because they can change the world.
He likes weak people and losers even though they cause him pain, discomfort or trouble. Holden tries to protect people he sees as vulnerable. That reminds him of his dream and he imagines to stay behind one of the glass boxes so he would not change anymore, he would not grow up. When he is in the museum he realizes that nothing has changed there. Like this the world would be perfect forever. Holden has a dream of changing the world by stopping children to grow up. In his opinion children stand for innocence. As a reason for that he sees the process of growing up.
The reason why he has problems to integrate himself into society is the corruption of the world. He is unrealistic believing he has an exact plan when his whole plan is to "take a room in a hotel., and just take it easy till Wednesday" (chapter 7). His plan to stay in a cheap hotel in New York till the holidays start shows the reader how impetuous he is. It stands for the "phony" values he hates. Although he is intelligent school represents nothing usefull for him. For children of his age school should be the most important thing but he does not care about his grades. He tries to feal bad about this but without succsess. Holden has flunked out of his third prep school. He is telling the story to a doctor in a mental hospital near Hollywood. Holden is the sixteen-year-old son of wealthy parents who live near Central Park in New York City. The story ends as Holden is telling this whole story to a Doctor in a mental hospital. But he changes his mind and decides to rejoin his family. The only solution for his problems Holden sees in running away and to hide himself as a deaf mute. So what he does is that he sneaks into his home to see Phoebe but she disappoints him by making fun of him because he was expelled from another school. The only person Holden really seems to like is his ten- year-old sister Phoebe but he is afraid of calling her because his parents might find out that he has flunked out of school again. He spends his time with several people during his stay but he does not get close with any of them. Even though he knows a lot of people in and around New York he is constantly lonesome and looking for someone who sympathizes with his opinions. He plans to leave school three days before Christmas vacation and to spend some time on his own in a hotel in New York City, where he lives. Holden Caulfield is a prep school stundent who has flunked out of school the week before Christmas. Jerome David Salinger tells his novel ,The catcher in the Rye" in form of a flashback of Holden Caulfield, an adolescent boy, who tries to grow up in an aduld world and to show that he is an aduld. It makes it very interesting to read of how it might have been to do so. I believe that everybody has thought about running away from home when they were around sixteen-year-old. The content never got boring because there was always something new to learn about Holden's character. I could identify myself with him in some situations. Sometimes I could really understand the way Holden felt because I know what I felt when I was his age.
#THE CATCHER IN THE RYE BY J.D.SALINGER TV#
It's written in the English we can see on TV everywhere. Holden was very funny at times especially when he called Sally to ask her about "trim a tree" for Christmas. I followed his advice and I must say that it turned out as prudent. He told me that the novel was recommendable because it takes not toolong to read it, the language is quite simple so it would not be to difficult to me to get on well with the text. My brother suggested me ,The catcher in the Rye" for my book report. Reasons for my choice of book for this book report