“This fall I think you’re riding for- it’s a special kind of fall, a
             horrible kind. The man falling isn’t permitted to feel or hear
             himself hit the bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. 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. They gave it
             up before they ever really even got started.”
             Holden Caulfield’s fall to psychological breakdown begins with his brother
             Allie’s death. To Holden, Allie represents everything that was good in this world. When
             Allie is first described, Holden only says great things about him. “You’d have liked
             him... He was terrifically intelegent... He was the nicest (member of the family).”
             Therefore when Allie dies, the good things in his world disappears. After this first major
             event, Holden gradually realizes that he is powerless to change the evil and corrupt world
             that he lives in. Holden is looking for something that his own environment couldn’t
             supply him, the only thing that he ever liked, Allie.
             “Just because somebody’s dead, you don’t just stop liking
             them, for God’s sake- especially if they were about a thousand
             times nicer than the people you know that’re alive and all.”
             Another early event in Holden’s life is the death of James Castle. Holden sees
             himself as James in many ways. James would not take back what he said about a
             conceited boy, and jumped out of the window before he would do something that he did
             not believe in. Holden is the same in many ways. He refuses to accept the fact that the
             world is evil, and does everything in his power to change it.
             “The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly fo
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