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Catcher In The Rye Critical Analysis

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Throughout the ‘Catcher in the Rye’,Holden Caulfild has no clear perspective about his future and tries to escape from routine of the grey present into his past,the place where he is a friend,a brother,a son and just a boy with an ordinary life. The book reveals a few days in life of a 16-years-old searching for reasons to live and to find his place in the world.Being alone everywhere he goes Holden has noboby who could take care of him.In every school he has gone to he was a complete stranger, being surrounded by people he could not find a single person to have a real conversation with.As the consequence Holden changed many educational institutions in the past few years.Trying to explain himself he provides the most essential argument:“One of the biggest reasons I left Elkton Hills was because I was surrounded by phonies. That's all. They were coming in the goddam window.” (p.20)
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