... 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 narrator of the story, his personal mood colors everything in the novel. There is even ... a sense of impending danger, doom, and death throughout the plot since everything around ... ...

• Word Count: 1487
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... children frolic around in, however there is a cliff at the end of the field which the children do not see. The song symbolizes the joy of childhood and the suddenness and harsh reality of adult life. Holden interprets one line in the song, "If a body meet a body coming through the rye," as meaning someone is out there trying to catch the children and save them from adulthood. Holden wishes he was this "catcher in the rye" so he can ... prevent people from being corrupted. He meets sally and ... ...

• Word Count: 1626
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... . In this essay, two great American novels are compared: The Adventures of Huck Finn by Mark Twain and The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. The Adventures of Huck Finn is a novel based on the adventures of a boy named Huck Finn, who along with a slave, Jim, make their way along the Mississippi River during the Nineteenth Century. The Catcher In The Rye is ... time that he does this he is symbolically dying and reemerges a more experienced person. In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden also uses fake names, but Holden symbolically dies through fainting, changing the position of his red hunt...

• Word Count: 1370
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania (1934-1936), which was the source for many of his critical and cynical descriptions of Pency Prep in Catcher in the Rye. (He later admitted to having fond feelings for the school, however.) This was where J.D. developed his sarcastic wit, and started writing. He spent five months in Europe in 1937, and returned to attend Ursinus College and New York University in 1938. While attending college, J.D. fell in love with Oona ... of his adamant reclusive behavior, Salinger is slowly killing himself. When Salinger wrote his first novel, The Catcher in th...

• Word Count: 1708
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School