In Chapter 9-14 Holden Caulfield leaves Penecy Prep and heads to New York City. Where he will stay for a couple days before winter vacation starts and he will head home. Delaying breaking the news to his family he got kicked out of school for as long as possible. These chapters are where Holden’s loneliness becomes abundantly clear. The reader is subjected to many long rants by Holden about the company he wants, though he attempts to settle several times.
Holden originally attended Pencey Prep but could never connect with the people around him. He is always criticizing or fighting with others, which lead him to leave Pencey without telling anyone. Holden heads to NYC where he faces many challenges with others and himself, emotionally and physically. Holden finds himself in his hotel room with a prostitute and feels extremely uncomfortable with what he is doing so he pays her and sends her off. The next day he plans a date with Sally Hayes, an old girlfriend, to see a play where he calls her “a pain in the ass” and laughs.
Chapter 16: “It’s All About Sex…” Main Ideas: 1. Sex is disguised by other things such as objects or activities 2. Parts where sex is coded can actually be more intense than literal descriptions Connection: In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden describes his pastimes with Jane playing checkers. Although it doesn’t specifically say, Holden wanted to have sex with her.
After Sunny gets the five dollars and Maurice gives Holden a good punch to the stomach, they leave the room. Holden is furious about the events prior and depicts how he would get his revenge on Maurice. Lastly as Holden lies in bed he loses the little faith he had in the world and thinks of suicide. Throughout this passage, Holden experiences the fact that the real
Holden's little brother, Allie, passed because of leukemia at the age of 11 years old. Holden, at the age of 13 years old, struggled to cope with this traumatic experience. In this scene, Holden invited a loose woman, Sunny, over to his hotel room after meeting her manager in the elevator. Holden wanted to get intimate interactions with Sunny until she actually tried to do excessive physical contact. Holden declares, “I don't feel very much like myself tonight...I'll pay you and all, but do you mind very much if we don't do it"
After Holden lost his brother Allie it sent him into a rage. It caused him to shatter all of the windows in his garage and breaking his hand with them. Holden was sent to the hospital immediately after breaking his hand and because of Holden's hospitalization, he was unable to attend Allie's funeral to say his final goodbye. Due to Holden’s absence at the funeral, he has a hard time letting go of Allie. “You don’t like anything that’s happening…
Holden continues to play it off and pretends that the waiter had “insulted the hell” out of him and replies, “ Do I look like I’m under twenty-one?”(78). Holden also expresses his need for adventure to distract from his depression when he “goes against his principles” and hires Sunny and even comments that, “When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think, ”(102). After hiring Sunny he finds that it was not a scenario he wanted to be in and attempted to pay her to have a conversation with him, for he was so lonely. Holden often makes decisions out of the ordinary and as a result, it creates a situations that he either can’t handle or puts him
Some parts to my life can relate to Holden from catcher in the rye to well. In someways I can personally relate to Holden and in other ways Holden can relate to my brother. In the ways that I can relate to Holden are how he keeps all of his feelings bunched up and thrown deep so no one can find them. We both aren't people who wear our emotions on our shoulders like other people because if people find out the real way that we feel they might treat us different.
: “Lee goes on to philosophize about good and evil and to finally bring Cal to Adam’s deathbed, where he asks Adam to “help him” and “free him”. Adam’s final “timshel” blessing at the novel’s close is what sets Cal free from his guilt and reminds him of his free will to choose good over inherited evil.” (Stanton 35). Lee is the one who eventually leads Cal to be set free. After looking at Lee it is now possible to understand Cal.
Holden perceives that he is alone in the world and is searching for someone with whom he can make a meaningful connection. He is in desperate need of a person to release him from his loneliness and feelings of despair. When Holden’s strong connection with Jane Gallagher ended, his life began a downward
Holden Caulfield lives his life as an outsider to his society, because of this any we (as a reader) find normal is a phony to him. Basically, every breathing thing in The Catcher in the Rye is a phony expect a select few, like Jane Gallagher. What is a phony to Holden and why is he obsessed with them? A phony is anyone who Holden feels is that living their authentic life, like D.B. (his older brother). Or simply anyone who fits into society norms, for example, Sally Hayes.
In the book Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield states that he wants to be a catcher in a field of rye. Holden wants to give kids the opportunity to stay innocent. He wants to give them the opportunity to be caught, to be saved from all the responsibilities that one acquires when becoming an adult. He wants to catch them and push them back into their youth, back to where they had someone to talk to, and when they had friends that they could talk to and have fun with. In Holden’s life, he has suffered an immense loss, the loss of his little brother Allie.
In particular, an instance of Holden’s willingness to die for a noble cause rather than living is his encounter at the Edmont Hotel with Maurice and Sunny, the prostitute who he doesn’t even have sex with. When Holden is confronted by the duo to steal five dollars from him, he speaks out and refuses to pay. His efforts were to no avail though, as he not only gets punched but also his money taken away from him. After pretending to be shot, he finally reveals what he felt like doing, which “…was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window.”
From the outset, I have to say that “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger has been one of the most important and influential pieces of literature I have ever read. At its core, the book is a superb coming of age novel which discusses several extremely powerful themes such as the difficulties of growing up, teenage angst and alienation and the superficiality, hypocrisy and pretension of the adult world. These themes resonated deeply with me and were portrayed excellently through the use of powerful symbolism and the creation of highly relatable and likable characters. One such character is Holden Caulfield whom the story both revolves around and is narrated by.
The Catcher in the Rye Final Essay (Draft) In J.D. Salinger's fiction book, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden, a teen living in the 1940’s, experiences his teen years in strange and unusual ways. Holden teaches us that everyone experiences frustrations throughout life but can always manage them. Some readers of the novel believe that the book has lost its significance due to the fact that it was written so long ago.
