Catcher In The Rye Response Essay

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“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was¨ - J.D. Salinger. From the Catcher in the Rye. In the novel of the catcher in the rye there is a teenage boy that seems to not fit in with most people at the schools that he has been too. He thinks that everyone is a phony and everything they do is fake and a lie. People don’t try to understand him until one person finally did and that was his younger sister. My associate and I think this novel is relevant because we have read it and some teenagers can actually relate to the things that go on in Holden’s life like not having much friends or being complicated to understand.

Holden Caulfield is an antisocial person that has problems making friends or holding a conversation with people for like 5 minutes straight. He claims that no one is ever intelligent enough to have a conversation with someone, and he gets annoyed from that fast. He likes to call a lot of people phonies because of what they say or the things they do. He also seems to only really like children and can connect with them, like his sister. On page 179 of the book it explains how Holden basically couldn’t handle the “pressure” no more and just started bursting out in tears and how he couldn’t stop crying. This supports our …show more content…

In the end of the book he states, that he just wants to be a Catcher in the Rye for a job, if it ever existed. What he means by this is that he like to save every child, or kid from growing up and staying a kid forever to protect them from ever seeing the reality of the world as he is starting to. Holden starts to grow gray hair, so he puts a hunting cap to conceal it from every and even grows up to 6 feet tall very young in a short amount of time. Holden is very afraid of the outside world and can barely see anything the other way around things except how he portrays