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When Things Go Wrong

Holden's effect on other characters in the book

“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of terrible, terrible fall. . . . The whole arrangement’s designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn’t supply them with. . . . So they gave up looking.”

Catcher in the Rye

Holden Caulfield Analysis

Jocelyn Dorney

Phoebe is worried about him. Mr. Antolini believes he’s not living up to his potential.

Major Turning Events

Holden has people that care about him and he cares for them, but he doesn’t care enough about himself to change.

First Allie's Death, next his expulsions from school, and James Castle.

Mr. Antolini is really the first person to make Holden clearly see where his future is going. Holden has on seen a portion of the picture never the whole piece so ruining his life now will forever affect him in his future.

About Holden

Holden has never gotten closure from Allie’s death so he had to grow up fast and that’s why he values innocence because he lost his so quickly. He gives up on life because he can't understand how its fair, and if being involved with death means being an adult he doesn't want to become one. James is the first person Holden has ever met who believes so much in the stand fast to ones' values that he would rather die than take it back. Holden wants to die nobly but for an unworthy cause just so he can stay true to himself and not also place a lot of attention to him.

Physical Appearance

About Holden

Compare & Contrast

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He is tall and gangly, with a head full of gray and red hair.

This shows how on the outside he looks old, but on the inside he is just a scared teenager.

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Compare/Contrast

About Holden

Holden and Phoebe

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”I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all.”

Phoebe is wise beyond her years and accepts the loss of her innocence with integrity but never forgets happiness. Holden is angry that he has lost these things, Allie and his innocence, so he tries to stop caring; making him fail more than succeed.

He is the main character that has psychological issues. He is the protagonist.

“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. . . . Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.”

He wants to keep the children on the path of innocence and he won’t like adulthood come and let them grow up. He want s them to savor their childhood because he did not get that same chance.

Holden Caulfield represents teenage confusion and grief. He rebels because he doesn’t understand how life can be normal when you lose someone so close to you.

Character Role

This shows how Holden wishes that he could have had this before Allie died so Allie could have never left. He feels like his changed since Allie has died and feels he is really not part of his family

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The End

Citation

References

Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951. Print.

In conclusion, Holden has possessive issues, he is possessive to childhood innocence, he holds on to items that remind him about Phoebe and Allie. Holden is a scared teenager whose rebellion from school has also caused him to rebel in life. His inexperience of the real world causes his issues to become larger in the big city of New York. The more alone he feels the more he withdraws into himself and his own philosophies, the causes the poison in his thoughts reside into his soul. In order to become happy he wants to die innocent like Allie, but he has already lost his innocence to the adult world he fears. So Holden won't grow unless he detatches himself from his mind and finds a whole new meaning in life... One that he can control.

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