... a life that many people would consider privileged. The only thing is that Holden doesn't really care for things like money, distinguished prep schools, and New York City life he just wants love and happiness. Social status means nothing to Holden because none of it provides the love and happiness that he is looking for. ... Holden has money but all that it buys him is pointless and meaningless pleasures that bring no happiness and least of all love. In New York Holden pays for a hooker to come up to his room. Holden thinks that maybe sleeping with the hooker will give him some satisfacti...

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... breakdown,in the 1950s. Holden tells the story of his last day at a school called Pencey Prep, and of his psychological meltdown in New York City. Holden has been expelled from Pencey becuase she failed, and after an unpleasant evening with his self-satisfied roommate Stradlater and their neighbor Ackley, he ... decides to leave Pencey for good and spend a few days alone in New York City before returning to his parents' Manhattan apartment. In New York, he succumbs to increasing feelings of loneliness and desperation; he feels increasingly tormented by the memory of his younger brother ....

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... was to be sent home from Pencey for good, he decides to leave early and be on his own in New York City for a few days. With a decent stash of money and a desperate desire to repress his depression, Holden roams around the city, meets up with old friends, strikes up conversations with new ones, drinks and smokes profusely, and hardly sleeps. At one ... , such as crying. The unpredictability of Holden's expression of emotions demonstrates his emotional deterioration. Holden's full downward spiral can be attributed mainly to his mental corrosion. While wandering around New York City, the te...

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... to accept these things as normal the way other people accept them. Aside from the schools, Holden finds himself an alien in the every day world of New York City. The hypocrisy and vulgarity of city bars make his condition even worse. His attempts to find emotional support from his peers, Sally and Luce, are unsuccessful because they are well adjusted to society ... in society, which makes him different. His old girlfriend Sally does not even notice the things that depress Holden. When he tries to explain to her why he hates New York and people who only talk about "how many miles they ge...

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... respect each other, which is why Holden enjoys his relationship with his sister. And he never accuses her of being a phony. Holden also likes New York. He is happy being there, getting away from things back home; the city is almost like an escape for him. Although he does not state the fact that he likes the ... city or the lifestyle, it is the one thing that Holden seems to not criticize. The city life seems to help Holden grow up a little bit; he has many different experiences and encounters. He likes to go out to ... of fit in. Holden wouldn't try to fit in somewhere, even subconsci...

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... problems arise from his lack of maturity. Holden tries taking responsibility as team manager of the fencing team, but overestimates the job. While on a subway to a match in New York, he forgets all the equipment. Holden's lack of responsibility is the reason why "The whole team ostracized me on the way back" (Salinger 6). Indeed, this episode ... flunking out of school, but he is actually flunking out of life. He goes from a great all boys private school, to ending up on the streets of New York City. Mintz says this about high school, "High school was strongly shaped by the fact that m...

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... from his lack of maturity. Holden tries taking responsibility as team manager of the fencing team, but overestimates the job. While on a subway to a match in New York, he forgets all the equipment. Holden's lack of responsibility is the reason why "The whole team ostracized me on the way back" (Salinger 6). Indeed ... school, but he is actually flunking out of life. He goes from a great all boys private school, to ending up on the streets of New York City. Mintz says this about high school, "High school was strongly shaped by the fact that most young people could expect to achieve the ma...

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... high school, Holden left his most recent ex-school, Pencey Prep, days before he was supposed to. He caught a train to New York and spent a few days in the city. "New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night. You can hear it for miles. It makes you feel so lonesome and ... their faces. Of course it was an accident, but it is these little things that distance Holden, leaving him all alone, again. While Holden is in New York, he indirectly reveals that he wants to be a type of person he isn't able to be. Holden wants himself to be a suave, mature, young adult ...

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... , numerous responsibilities, and being characterized into a social class of society. Holden Caulfield, the antagonist of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, lives in an adult society when he moves into New York City yet he is only a teenager. As a result, he faces a self-identity struggle and is uncertain of his beliefs. Salinger portrays the difficulties that go along with the "coming of age ... support or signs of comfort from his family. After flunking out of Pency Prep, his last school, Holden takes the reader on an adventure as he returns home to New York for search of peace and com...

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... was much like the book Catcher in the Rye. In the film Mel Gibson Plays Jerry Fletcher a working hours cab driver in New York City. Julia Roberts plays Alice Sutton who is a dedicated Justice Department attorney working in New York. In the book Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger. The main Character is Holden Caulfield through the entire novel. In several ways ... . Jerry is a cab driver which indicated that he socializes with many people most of the day when he is working. He has odd relationships with people around the city and working in New York a vast amount of people comes...

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The story A Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger was all about a young man named Holden Caulfield. Holden was a michevious boy from New York City whom always lacked off in his doings. He would never care about school and his grades, but always managed to get a good passing grade in English that was taught by a ... out for failing every subject. So he left packing his bags wishing he could have worked harder. This lead to him having to stay many nights at hotels around New York until the semester was finished. If his parents had found out he would have been in trouble. Every night he s...

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... from Pency, a fashionable prep school, the latest in a long line of expulsions, Holden has a few confrontations with his fellow students and leaves shortly after to return to his hometown, New York City. In the heart of New York City, Holden spends the following two days hiding out to rest before confronting his parents with the news. During his adventures in the ... city he tries to renew some old acquaintances, find his significance in the adult world, and come to grips with the head-aches he has been having lately. Eventually, Holden sneaks ... ...

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... other people, when in reality he himself is a phony. Another symbol that is used throughout the novel to characterize Holden is the hunting hat he had just purchased in New York City. The hat represents Holden's awkwardness; it does not fit in with the environment, nor does he. Throughout the novel, J.D. Salinger uses symbols to characterize Holden in a very unique way, and ... he is missing something in his life. For example, from the essay "The Structure of The Catcher in the Rye" by Brian Way, "Holden's excitement (from just arriving in New York City) is the excitement of the fantasi...

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... . Boston: Little, Brown and Company, Inc. 1951 Intended Audience: High school junior or sophomore English classes. Summary The Catcher in the Rye is about a 16-year-old boy from New York named Holden Caulfield. In the beginning of the novel Holden indicates that he is in some kind of mental facility. Holden comes from a rather wealthy family and has attended many ... of all the schools he went to, mainly because of poor grades. Holden leaves his final school, Pencey prep., and decides to stay in New York City for a while so he can go home after his parents learn of his expulsion. While i...

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... , Holden is scared. He has been kicked out of numerous schools, he can't get good grades, his parents are angry with him, and he spends his days wandering through New York City. He doesn't know where he is going to go, reflecting his question about the ducks. Now Holden is troubled by unexplained disappearances "he in anxious to know where the ... ducks have gone since he feels extremely threatened by the idea that people and things just vanish, as Allie did. While walking through New York City, Holden arrives at the Museum of Natural History. He remarks that he likes the glass cases tha...

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... ... I was flunking four subjects and was not applying myself at all. They gave me frequent warnings to start applying myself but I didn't do it." (4) New York City is where Holden ends up after Pencey. Even in New York, Holden feels singled out and ostracized. In a hotel he was staying at, he ran into a pimp who offered him a prostitute for five dollars. Holden accepts ... -107) This shows how very vulnerable Holden is. He does not want to go back home, because he does not belong there at the moment, so he stays in New York. Holden needs the support of the world around him. He came from a...

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... to know and understand the main character, Holden Caulfield. Holden, in his narration, relates a flashback of a significant period of his life, three days and nights on his own in New York City. Through his narration, Holden discloses to the reader his innermost thoughts and feelings. He thus provides the reader not only with information of what occurred, but also how he felt ... of school vacation, Holden is alone, bored and restless, wondering what to do. He decides to leave Pencey, his school, at once and travels to New York by train. He decides that, once in New York, he will stay i...

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... autobiography. Holden is kicked out of Pencey a week before the end of school, a letter is sent to his parents - but he leaves earlier and spends three nights hanging around New York city. The book is set in the 1950s, around Christmas time when it is winter in America. Before Holden sneaks out of Pencey we are introduced to his classmates Stradlater and ... all set to take her home and all - I really was - but she said " I have a marvelous idea!" She was always having a marvelous idea. The physical journey from Pencey and around New york is what shaped Holden's state of mind - made him...

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... out of a private prep school. Because he is afraid that his parents would find out this fact, he goes to a hotel in New York City instead of going home after he leaves school for Christmas vacation. In New York, many things happen to him within a few days. For example, he goes to the hotel bar and meets three women after he first arrives ... ...

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... , a novel that has given him much of his reputation and has been banned in many schools and public libraries (J.D. Salinger, Lomazoff). J.D. Salinger, or Jerome Davis Salinger, was born in New York City in 1919 to Jewish Sol Salinger and the Irish-Catholic Miriam Jillich Salinger. Salinger did not have a good relationship with his father partly because he was the cause for him ... 1936 he graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy at which he served as literary editor of the senior yearbook and began to compile his first stories. He attended New York University for a short period o...

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... blatant references to sex and alcohol and its sacrilegious and matter-of-fact references to religion. Holden drinks and smokes and even gets drunk and almost passes out on a New York street on his way back from a bar. This shows grim reality, but when it comes down to it, high school and reality don't converge on a few things. Most high schools ... way in life, he is really a very special case and not "a case study of all of us" (Jones 26). How many teens have the option of living alone in New York for a few days? Not many students can afford, literally, to do anything but go home to th...

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... I almost wished I was dead." This quote shows that Holden is aware of his own loneliness, so he decides to leave Pencey to go to New York City. When Holden is done packing his bags for New York, he realizes that no one at Pency has given him the attention he needs or cares about his exit, he shouts out, "Sleep tight, ya morons ... ...

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... his room mate he leaves the school a few days before Christmas Break, when he is suppose to leave. He heads to the big city where the story becomes more interesting. His adventures in the big city of New York are humorous to say the least. After sneaking home to see Phoebe, his sister, Holden gets worse and the impending break down is much ... ...

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... around there are alcoholics, prostitutes, thieves, drug addicts, etc. Holden saw this in most of the people he met. After living in New York City for a few days, Holden becomes very upset by the number of phonies in the city. And Holden then decides that he will be like "the catcher in the rye", and protect the innocent children. In on of Holden ... ...

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... , if he does not know them very well, he stresses out and tends to drink. When talking to these women, Holden completely changes his personality. When he goes to New York City, the first person Holden thinks of calling is Sally Hayes. Even if he does not have the courage to call Jane, he immediately calls Sally and they go out together ... ...

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