How Do Charlie And Holden Alienate Themselves

Did society alienate Charlie and Holden or did they alienate themselves? Both J.D. Salinger and Stephen Chbosky wrote coming of age novels which were ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ and the ‘perks of being a wallflower’ in which the main character has gone through each of their emotions. Most of the emotions or feelings are feelings of depression, feelings of love, and another thing these characters do is try to explore who they are as a person and why they are there. These emotions like depression can create a certain isolation in people. Love can even lead to depression due to the person not being able to return the feelings and this creates the depressed isolation. Stephen Chbosky’s novels shows the sad or the soft side in men more than women while in The Catcher in the Rye he never really shows his emotions and the women are mostly seen with their showing of emotions. In both novels they can both be seen, in a way, moving themselves from everyone else. In the Catcher in the Rye, Holden lies to many people so no one knows who he is. Also you can see Charlie being a wallflower and not saying something about something that happened. This moves him away

They let their emotions control how they act or how they should be acting. Charlie stays away from his friends when they are going through some rough times and keeps himself out of those situations because of how he feels and not because it was the right thing to do. If he were to talk to Patrick, he could of helped him feel better or even if he got shot down , he wouldn’t be the one alienating or isolating himself. It would be everyone else. They would be at fault for alienating him. This just makes it worst for him. In the novel the Catcher in the Rye, Holden doesn’t try to talk to Jane because of his feelings which can alienate him and keep him away from conversations that can help him get out there and not be so