... values to the youth on the verge of adulthood. This is a recurring theme in Salinger's novels. Finally, Salinger paints a clear picture of the phoniness in life, where artists sacrifice their art for fame, and mothers cry fake tears in movies. Holden Caulfield is totally disgusted at the phonies in the world. Through Holden, Salinger is trying to make the reader see the need for honesty and integrity in the modern world. The mood in "The Catcher in the Rye", is dark ... , bleak, gloomy, and depressing. Holden is troubled, seaching, frustrated, and alienated youth; since he is the narrato...

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... new school next year. He regrets telling his story to so many people; talking about it, he says, makes him miss everyone. List of Characters For The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield - The narrator of the novel. When the novel opens, Holden is a sixteen year-old junior at a school called Pencey Prep; he has just been expelled for failing. Holden is intelligent and sensitive, ... his hands and landing him in the hospital during Allie's funeral. One of Holden's most prized possessions, a baseball glove on which Allie wrote poems in green ink, first belonged to Allie. D.B. - Holden's old...

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... is getting older. Holden uses a lot of projection though out the book as one of his defense mechanisms. "If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me"(2). He says the movies are phony and so are the people that go to them. Even though he says this he goes to the movies and he has very strong feelings about them. Holden does many ... things to contradict himself throughout his story. Such as taking Sally to a play even though he says that he does not like them either. He doesn't want to become like this but he can't help it, which is why he tries to make it...

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... them. He talks about his older brother D.B. and how he was a sellout. He said he was a sellout because of how D.B. had moved out to Hollywood and sold himself to make movies, but he did look up to him. Yet Somehow, Holden would always compare himself to Allie, his brother who died, and how Allie was fifty times smarter than he. Holden ... excel at this job without a doubt. He"ll be successful because as he said, "I see a field of rye in which many children are playing near a cliff I stand by the cliff and catch anyone before they fall off." Holden Caulfield will be the "Catcher in the R...

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The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger tells a story of a young man named Holden Caulfield and the experiences he faces after being dismissed from school. On his trip, he meets many different people all of whom he viciously criticizes and complains about adult evils. Holden Caulfield consistently condemns adult corruption and the "phoniness" in people, but he consistently contradicts himself and therefore is a phony and a hypocrite. This can all ... be proven in the book, by misrepresenting himself to others, his self contradictory actions and his own behaviour at certain places. Holden is a...

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... of his main character, Holden Caufield, through his relationships with his siblings in The Catcher In The Rye. Each sibling brings out a different characteristic, and each relationship carries a different meaning. Holden's relationship with his older brother D.B. reveals his complete dislike of the "game" of life and the "phonies" that play it. At first, Holden admired his brother and his work as a writer. Holden read all his stories and ... truly expressed his approval of his brother because he only read the books he liked. If a teacher assigned a novel and Holden disliked the author, ...

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