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