Cather in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye begins when Holden Caulfield goes to visit one of his teachers before he has to leave the school since he was kicked out. Holden decides to leave the school early and use the Christmas money and other money he has saved up to go to New York for a while until it would be time for him to come home. Holden was kicked out of Pencey Prep School for not having the grades and this is not the first time this has occurred. He fears that his parents will be disappointed in him and because of that, when he goes to New York, he stays in hotels rather than going straight home. The book describes Holden’s days in New York and the people he meets. Interesting events such as when he gets mugged in his hotel room and when he is molested by one of his former teachers all drive Holden farther and farther away from the normal views of soc

I feel that Salinger was looking for a form of expression that would enable him to say what he wanted to say but not have to deal with the repercussions that would come if he wrote it as say and autobiography. The use of made up characters allowed Salinger to show the public what he really was and how he really thought of himself. He thought himself insane, a sell out, someone that needed to be alone and apart from the society because he thought himself different. In all actuality he more than likely really was different from the rest of the society at the time, hence the feeling that he needed to be alone. Salinger was extremely successful in his venting of all the emotions and feelings that he had towards his own life and it was these emotions that made the book into something with a meaning. The books represented the youth of it’s time, even though he was much older than a youth at the time it was written, but more importantly it still represents the youth today, since each generation feels the need to be totally and completely different from the generation before it.

iety of that time, which is towards the late 40’s and 50’s. Holden often acts in a manner that isn’t quite normal, for both now and then. He frequently acts as though he was someone else, or a character in a story or novel. Such as the time in his hotel room when he acts as if he was shot and stumbles around, running into things and speaking like it was his last breath. Holden also often creates these grand plans of moving away and completely separating himself from society, sometimes, such as the case with Sally Hayes, when he said that he loved her and wanted to move up north with her and they would live together and have children and live

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