Comparing Catcher In The Rye And The Truman Show

The way people live their lives depends on the type of society they live in. Almost everything in life is based on what society considers to be acceptable. In The Truman Show, Truman Burbank is a man who was born into a reality T.V show. From the minute he was born, he was brought into the set of the show, Seahaven Island. His entire life had been filmed and broadcasted to the world. He did not know that everyone around him was acting, that they were just characters in a show. His friends, his wife, even his own mother was an actress. The only thing real about the show was Truman, and that was why people enjoyed watching him. At first, it drove Truman crazy seeing how everyone started acting so strangely all of a sudden. But as the film goes on, he starts putting all the pieces together, and figures out that he is being watched. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is a depressed teenager. He believes that, just like Truman, he lives in a fake society. Although he is not surrounded by actors, he feels like everyone around him is a phony, which is one thing he cannot stand. He labels everyone he encounters as a phony, especially the adults. To him the adult world is a corrupt place, and he would prefer to stay out of it. Both Truman and Holden are

They were not satisfied with the way their lives had turned out and they both wanted to escape it. Truman’s life was full of lies, everyone around him was pretending to be someone they were not. He trusted them and he felt betrayed when he found out they were all actors. He decides to leave his society, unlike Holden who decided to not run away. Holden calls everyone around him a phony. He does not like talking to people because he feels that they would only tell him lies. At the end of the novel, Holden began to mature. He got in terms with how the world works. He started realizing that society might not change no matter what, and that phonies are all around