Catcher in the Rye

Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger, the author of The Catcher in the Rye, created Holden Caulfield a character who seems to believe in keeping everything constant and whose real opponent in life is adulthood with his cold relationship with his parents, painful childhood experiences, and the death of his brother Allie. The novel, the Catcher in the Rye is captures the story of a troubled teenage boy named Holden Caulfield who writes down his experiences as he enters the early years of being an adult and his struggles with
growing up. Holden fights with keeping things stagnant and make change inevitable and throughout the book. The author uses the text to suggest that Holden's family clearly had a big role on his view of his later life and adulthood. Holden is emotionally distant from his mother. The loss of her younger son (his brother Allie) has locked Mrs. Caulfield in a state of nervous exhaustion that is characterized by constant headaches and anxiety which causes her to lose sleep and chain smoke. “All the two of them were eating for breakfast was toast and coffee. That depressed me. I hate it if I'm eating bacon and eggs or something and somebody else is only eating toast and coffee” (Salinger 110). There seems to be a big boulder between Holden and his parents. He shows his annoyance through the book through subtle comments and I think their failure to establish a stronger relationship with Holden has a strong impact on his negative look at adults and maturity. Holden probably once saw his parents as great people or his protectors as every child does but with his mother’s lack of love and no real relationship with his father, Holden looks down on them as people. That is something that tainted his view of grown-ups. Holden’s quick sutle statements you can learn a lot about him and realize that his beliefs and attitude on life are triggered by experience and certain situations he faced in the past .
He isn’t a character to go on and on about something but he’ll be frank...

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