Examples Of Grief In Catcher In The Rye

In Human Nature, when tragedy arises and disrupts the normal emotional state, soon follows the brain's way to embrace and accept the dire situation that occured. In Psychiatrists, Elizabeth Kubler Ross, explained the progression of the brain accepting a trauma/loss through emotional stages - or known as the five stages of grief. The nonlinear and unpredictable stages include; Denial, Anger, Bargaining/Guilt, Depression and then Acceptance. In the novel, “Catcher In The Rye”, by J. D. Salinger, throughout the novel the reader follows the main character, Holden, on his journey through his stages of grief after the death of his brother. In the novel, ““Catcher In The Rye”, by J. D. Salinger, the different stages of grief are represented through

However, Holden so far has fully displayed the second stage of Anger, and exhibits many examples of him progressing through this stage. The stage of Anger allows the emotions one's feeling after loss to be felt after denial. This can lead to violence and rage to be enacted on one, everyone or something. Holden expresses his stage of anger by inflicting violence, which is displayed directly after the loss, and as Holden illustrates the memory he claims, “"I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddamn windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. It was very stupid I have to admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it, and you didn't know Allie (Salinger, 39)." During the night, the passing of Holden's brother lead him to take violent action in the garage, as he conveys his anger by breaking all the glass without a clear reason. Holden embraces the stage of anger by expressing his feelings through rage and attempts to diffuse his infatuations through destroying property. Another example of Holden's progression through the emotional stage of anger as he inflicts his rage towards a peer. Regardless of whether the fight was over the loss of Holden's brother, the