Holden Caulfield Indecisive Analysis

Holden Caulfield is a character who has been through rejection and wishes to protect others innocence. He is a teen boy who is the main character in Catcher in The Rye by J.D.Salinger. He has an older brother named DB, a younger sister named Phoebe, and a younger, deceased, brother named Allie. Holden retells his story on him, trying to be the catcher in the rye. Holden has been kicked out of different colleges. He has been rejected by different girls. Holden goes through his life story. He talks about being kicked out of Pencey, his friend Jane, his “acquaintance” Stradlater, and how, when, and where Allie died. Society is to blame for Holden Caulfield's decline in mental stability. Society does not help Holden. Instead, they ignore his

In The Catcher in the Rye, the reader is first introduced to Holden Caulfield, as first person narrator. He is a radically independent adolescent who tosses off judgments at ease unselfconsciously. The introduction scene is set where he is, voluntarily isolated from the rest, looking down upon a hill during a Pencey Prep football game. He then goes into introducing primary characters that impacted his life, such as, Mr. Spencer, Ackley and Stradlater. Later on that night, Holden leaves campus enraged with anger and hatred towards everyone and sets on an adventure to find himself in the city of New York. Throughout the novel, Holden goes on a pursuit in search of maturity, intimate love, moral innocence, and acceptance despite his hatred for phoniness.

Holden Caulfield, the main protagonist of the book is a young, emotional, and a damaged person. He faces difficulty with the death of his brother, his family being disappointed about his work in school, and not only his innocence, but the innocence of his sister, Pheobe. Holden doesn’t like to acknowledge, but we know many people in his life care about his well being and his success and happiness. The issue Holden is dealing with is prevalent throughout the entire book leading up until the end, and that is his innocence. He can’t accept growing up and is scared of reality. This is crucial for the book, not just to captivate the reader with relatable narration and emotions, but for the forward movement of the story and plot.

Holden Caulfield, a 17 year old boy who is reminiscing a about his 16 year old self’s journey from childhood to adulthood. This in such journeys one tends to make big decisions and loses their innocence, but Holden refuses to. In J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye one may only see Holden Caulfield as a rich boy with first world problems that are way too trivial to feel lost about. Throughout the duration of the novel Holden spent it in New York City, where he moped around for a few days. While there he found himself in different situations asking the same questions about change. Holden has immense issues with change, specifically growing up. Like any person growing up requires one to understand the benefits of change and to embraces them,

Roberto Villalon Holden Caulfield is a teenage boy who struggles growing up. Throughout the book Catcher in the rye by J.D. Sallinger, Holden Caulfield is a teenage boy who experience struggles growing up and facing the real world he is living in. Holden unable to accept growing because he is not mature enough to take responsibilities. Holden is a teeanger who refuses to grow up because of his sad childhood and he does not understand people around him.

Holden Caulfield is undoubtedly one of the most interesting and confusing fictional characters in all of literature. He is a seventeen year old protagonist and the narrator of the the novel, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. He is also very opinionated and often judges others based on their actions. In his mind, he is a protector of innocence. The main idea that children will lose their innocence as they mature into adults is very widely explored throughout this novel. He wants to preserve the innocence of everyone and shield them from maturity because his goal, that we later find out, is to be “the catcher in the rye”, protecting everyone from falling off the cliff into adulthood. He also wants to protect his own innocence because he is unsure of what the future holds for him.

Holden Caulfield is more than just a character in the story, but he is a normal teenage boy. He is someone that many readers can see in themselves. Throughout the novel, Holden faces many obstacles that many teenagers face today. He encounters experiences with alcohol and sex, struggles academically in school, and he is unsure of what his life will turn out to be. This novel says things like they truly are. It does not lie or try to mask the situation. Growing up is difficult, and it is filled with lots of choices; these choices can affect who a person is in life. There is a little bit of Holden Caulfield in every individual. That is why I relate so much to this book. I live in a society that is tarnished and corrupted with drugs, alcohol, sex, and pornography. I am constantly faced with decisions to make each day, temptations to overcome, and moral choices to help with my life. It amazes me at the easy accessibility of these temptations and how quickly one can become addicted to them. However, this book has given me hope that I can mature into a young man who can make the right decisions for himself and help those around him to do the

    Without love and guidance, young people often find themselves lost; unsure of what direction their lives are headed. Such is the case with Holden Caulfield, a character from the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. Holden is a sixteen-year old boy who has lost his way. Hold has suffered a great loss, the death of his Brother, Allie.

In Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden must find his place in society while combating his very closed minded personality. Holden experiences multiple changes in his attitude, demeanor, and egotism. He transitions from feeling superior to all his ‘phony’ peers, to understanding that he must try fit in with the crowd. He makes up many excuses for his narcissistic and overly-independent personality, blaming those around him for not being authentic enough, and blaming his teachers for giving him bad grades. He seems to feel lost as an individual, not knowing how to succeed, while still following his principles and being independent.

In the book The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield is introduced as the main character and as the protagonist. Holden is a unique character, who suffers from a mental disorder. Although it is never mentioned, one can infer that he has one. These mental disorders never stop him from showing who he truly is and what he feels. A very important emotion that he has is how caring he actually is towards everyone despite his actions.

Holden Caulfield plays a timeless character in the sense that his way of life is common for the American teenager, in his time as well as now. Today parents dread the terrible and confusing adolescent years of their child's life. In J.D. Salinger's book, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is in this terrible and confusing point of his life. At this point in his life, as well as in modern teenager's lives, a transition occurs, from child to adult. Holden takes this change particularly rough and develops a typical mentality that prevents him from allowing himself to see or understand his purpose in life.

The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger launches a number of themes and mental images in his novel The Catcher in the Rye, and he also places full responsibility of narrating to his main character Holden Caulfield. Throughout the vivid and informal narration, it becomes clear Holden is too unreliable and unstable a soul to hold any real credibility as a storyteller. Despite his lack of credibility, Holden still is able to demonstrate enough sanity to inform the audience the danger of protecting one’s true self through isolation while transitioning in life with red hunting hat. Holden’s biggest fear becoming a phony or someone who has an adult-like approach to life as he too is heading into adult life. On a mission to maintain his childhood, Holden puts up walls with people he brands as phonies.

Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, introduces us to Holden Caulfield is one of my favorite characters because of his immaturity and confusion, or lack of understanding of his own mind. He tends to change opinion, say strong remarks, and act very childish throughout the book. Because he hasn’t grown up. He hates most of the things he comes across during the novel. His challenge is understanding the reason things are the way they have to be and why he has to act a certain why. He doesn't understand the conventions of society so he

Holden resists change especially change in age, and resists the biological clock leading to his path of madness. “No one ever told me grief felt so like fear” -C.S. lewis. Holden Caulfield is a very unique individual who struggles with fitting in with society. He is quick to anger and unsympathetic to others and their problems. The Catcher In The Rye is a fictional narrative written by J.D. Salinger.

In a J.D Salinger novel, The Catcher in the rye interprets the adolescent world full of patience and misery. Holden Caulfield, hardly being the complete opposite of a typical protagonist. Instead, being the archetype of an anti-hero facing adolescent over anxiety. He is a teenager forced to grow up in a time of turmoil with severe emotional handicaps placed upon him by family, friends and life in general. Caulfield sets himself on such a journey and is portrayed as an individual on a quest for validation in life. Although he lives in a constant strive through society that is completely indifferent to him, he does display qualities of a certain hero. Such a hero that will eventually attempt beyond his comfort zone, finding himself in a world unknown to him, facing towards new challenges placed on his life. Despite the discomfort, Holden as a hero develops a sense of freedom and independence, becoming a stronger, more sophisticated individual, bringing new ideas to society.