First Impressions Of Holden Caulfield

Holden Caulfield in the novel “The Catcher In The Rye” is a scrawny teen who loves his red hunting hat and can’t relate with anyone. His personality is reason he can’t relate, his personality sucks, it’s depressing, judgy, and sensitive. My first impression of him was that he sure complained a lot, and he says goddamn way to much, and he doesn’t care about himself. Holden is always talking about depression, every chapter he talks about being depressed, mostly when he remembers something that someone said. He gets depressed over the simplest things, he thinks to much about things, and he exaggerates situations. For example, on page 116, he states “I can understand somebody going to the movies because there’s nothing else to do, but when somebody really wants to go, and even walks fast so as to get there

Holden insults people and calls them phony because it makes him feel better when anyone turns him down. For example as soon as he walks into the Lavender Room, which is a nightclub, he’s analyzing others. “(pg.69) At the table right next to me, there were these three girls around thirty or so. The whole three of them were pretty ugly, and they all had on the kind of hats that you knew they didn’t really live in New York, but one of them, the blonde, wasn’t to bad.” I’m convinced all he knows how to do is judge, he acts like he doesn’t care what people say about him, but he cares way to much.The littlest problems get him worked up or angry. He usually gets himself into predicaments where he tries to act macho, stand his ground, and then it backfires(he usually ends up being physical hurt). Holden doesn’t have any ambitions in life, he’s just basically going thru life blind. He’s very intelligent but doesn’t try, he failed four of his classes. He is also “the most terrific liar you’ve ever seen in your life,” it's true he really is quite good at lying, especially to