A common disorder all teens have is depression. The state of depression causes many different effects on a person’s thoughts and their behaviors. When a person has been through a lot and has seen things, they start to feel empty inside and feel different, for example, having to deal with a death in the family. J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye tells the story of the young Holden Caulfield, a teenage boy who is not your ordinary character. He lives a very difficult life while growing up. He drops out of school and tries to talk to random strangers. He deals with a death from his younger brother, Allie. That is a reason why Holden is depressed and he doesn’t know how to deal with himself. Holden has thoughts of suicide, however does …show more content…
Holden generally lies to himself to calm the emptiness and liability he is living with. Holden explains and tells the reader that he is depressed throughout the book. Holden suffers from depression, therefore to cope with it, he lies to everyone in his life, causing his depression to get worse throughout the book. Holden has no explanation has to why he is depressed. He faces problems and issues like accepting death from his younger brother Allie, growing up and omitting parental things because of this it restrains him to entirely see why he's depressed. One hassel he's dealing with is the death of his brother, Allie. He was traumatized by the death of his brother, it left him lots of upsetting feelings. It represented with Holden saying, ”They were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all because I broke all the windows in the garage…I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist” (Salinger 39). The quote announces after the death of his brother, he wasn’t able to control himself and went completely psycho for a moment. The death causes Holden to have aggressive actions. After losing his brother, Holden lost something inside of him that he will never get back. The death worries him because now he will have nothing to