Many of us have certain themes that we live throughout our lives. Sometimes one must overcome certain anxieties or pressures, and the one thing that may seem comforting, is what you may have to let go of. For Holden Claufeild in JD Salinger's Catcher in The Rye, that idea is innocence. This is his d...

Catcher in the Rye Holden and His "Phony" Family The protagonist, Holden Caulfield, interacts with many people throughout J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, but probably none have as much impact on him as certain members of his immediate family. The ways Holden acts around o...

Catcher in the Rye Symbolism The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger, is a display of characters and incidents portrayed through the eyes of an adolscent. Holden Caulfield, the main character has been revealed in the first person view in a unique narrative of a teenage ...

In J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, Holden is a character in denial. He greatly dislikes phonies, and even though he too carries the characteristics of a phony, he refuses to admit to himself that he is a phony as well as the rest of them. In Holden's point of view, phonies are those people who ...

Catcher in the Rye In Catcher in the Rye by Jerome David Salinger, Holden Caulfield suffers from an excess of sensibility and that means an excess of emotion that prevents him from functioning in the world properly. Holden puts his standards too high. So when Holden completes one of his everyday...

The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger The Catcher in the Rye is a story about a young man named Holden Caulfield and the experiences that he faces after being dismissed from school. This book contains a great deal of symbolism, but it can very easily be missed in its simple story line. The st...

The Catcher in the Rye The past three weeks I have been reading the novel The Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger. It takes place back in the middle nineteen hundreds. The story is about a College student whom attends college at Pencey University. This is his third school in his man...

A Catcher In The Rye This novel is a first person narrative novel. The main character Holden Caulfield tells the novel. The first few chapters are about how the private school he attended "Gave him the axe." for not applying himself in his classes after several warnings. Holden was pretty upset abou...

Literary Analysis: The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of the story The Catcher in the Rye, explains his struggle throughout his High School life and growing up. It all begins with Holden being explelled from Pency Preparatory School for doing poorly in ...

The whole course of the book takes place in a rest home in California. Holden, the narrator, is telling his doctor about what has happened to him during the last Christmas break. He is going to school at Pency Prep. He has been kicked out, along with many other schools. He is expected to leave...

Catcher in The rye Goddamn! In this City there is nothing too see but Pocahontas. That would be all right if I was a 10 year old, or even taking my little sister too the movies. What the hell am I going to see now? Hmmm lets see, what about ordinary people? So I went to purchase a ticket and ...

In the beginning of the novel, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden starts off by talking about only things he hates and many parts of the story is continues from that hatred. Holden may seem as though he believes everyone is phony, yet in other cases the story holds characters that ...

It has been proven that the environment that one grows up with will affect that person's life forever. People, especially, help to mold the life of another person. The novels Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, and The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, explore periods of time in the lives of t...

Character AnalysisThe main character in The Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caulfield. The most noticeable trait about Holden is how extremely judgmental he is about everything. He criticizes and people who are boring, insecure and "phony". He said, "For instance, they had this headmaster, Mr. Haas, th...