I'm Crazy

LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY OF J.D. SALINGER J.D. Salinger is one of the most renowned writers of his time. J. D. Salinger is most known for his controversial in the Catcher in the Rye. Salinger is also known for many of his writings such as Franney and Zooey, Nine Stories, and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters. The summer of 1930 he was voted “The Most Popular Writer”. “Salinger is a beautifully deft, professional who gives us a chance to catch quick, half-amused, half-frightened glimpses of ourselves

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. To begin with, Holden never speaks about having

The maturing of oneself is not only a journey of self discovery, but a process of the mind. In the Catcher in the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger we follow a teenager who’s ups and downs fill the plot of the book. The teenager, Holden Caulfield, shows the reader what it can be like when going through many tragedies as a young adult. The book is followed by a set of many questions. Throughout the book you find the answer to these question and why Holden becomes what he becomes. Relating to these questions

First, I think the Rye Field is a major symbol in this novel because pg 173, Holden told Phoebe about what he is picturing and Holden said “ I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff—I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d

written all over the finger and the pocket and everywhere.”(38). He seemed have been close to Allie, and it was a traumatic death and he said that though he was two years younger than Holden. He says that Allie was an incredibly nice, innocent child. “I'm the most terrific liar you

I can't stand the stuff. It drives me crazy. It makes me so depressed I go crazy. I hated that goddam Elkton Hills" (19). Clearly, his previous school did not bring him pleasant memories if he calls the people around him phonies. Even during his stay at Pencey Prep, Holden was quick to judge those he met. The

While talking with Phoebe about a poem by Robert Burns, Holden explains, “I keep picturing all these little kids playing…And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff…I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff” (Salinger 173). Holden shows signs of being a hero many times, including this time. Holden does not want the children to hurt themselves if they fall off the cliff

Holden doesn’t quite understand the full meaning of life and isn’t maturing enough to see what the world is really like. He has his assumptions and that is all he goes by. He thinks since every person he converses with at Pencey Prep. are phony; he believes the whole world is phony. In the book Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield talks about his life, his family, his friends, and his deceased brother. Holden talks about how the world is made up of phonies including

said “then to show you how crazy I am, when we were coming out of this big clinch, I told her I loved her and all. It was a lie of course but the thing is, I meant it when I said it” (Salinger 163). This shows that even though he lied about his feelings, something that he is good at, he soon developed them. Holden is not bothered by the fact that he lied. This is a major contradiction against how Holden feels about phonies even though he is a phony for lying. He says “I’m the most terrific liar you

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