eet" (50).
             Holden did not have the greatest childhood but for the most part he was happy. He often talks about times with his brother, Allie, when they used to have so much fun together. Allie died in his early teens from leukemia on July 18, 1946 and since then Holden has not been the same. That is when everything started to go downhill for him. Salinger goes in depth with detail about past experiences in Holden's life, giving us a clue to why he is so depressed.
             Through Salinger's novel, depression is ones reactions to the things around him in his environment and the experiences he went through in the past. Salinge
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