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Holden Caulfield Alienation

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The Rampart of Alienation ?
Improve; One regardless of varying strength or effectiveness wields some form of protection against threat; Threat itself manifesting in various forms. NEED TRANSITON In those, common ones include the use of weapons, violence, and death itself. In J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher In the Rye one is a witness to Holden Caulfield's form of protection. As the novel proceeds Holden utse of alienation as means of protection . Holden, describing the world to be “phony” including those who reside in it. With very few not being. Holden portrays himself as an outcast and does so by using alienation as means to achieve it.
Alienation from friends-
In the very commencement of the novel, quite literally the first few pages Holden finds himself accompanied only by solitude on a windy hilltop stating; “Anyway, it was the Saturday of the football game. […] I remember around three o'clock that afternoon I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill. […] You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place. […] You could hear them all yelling”(Salinger) He does not associate well with others. Distancing himself from social situation for afterwards inflict himself with remorse over the matter. For example, in (inset quote) …show more content…

A quandary, both internal and outward is symbolized as his hunting cap. Referencing it several times from when he first obtained in: to other less meaningful times such as when strolling down

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