I'm Crazy

Early in the book, he talks about his age at Mr. Spencer’s house: I’m seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I’m about thirteen. It’s really ironical, because I’m six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. I really do. The one side of my head - the right side - if full of millions of gray hairs. I’ve had them ever since I was a kid. And yet I still sometimes like

Innocence, Compassion, and some ‘Crazy' Cliff A novel, which has gained literary recognition worldwide, scrutiny to the point of censorship and has established a following among adolescents, The Catcher in the Rye is in its entirety a unique connotation of the preservation of innocence and the pursuit of compassion. With certain elegance the writer J.D. Salinger, substantiates the growth and perils, which lie between childhood and adulthood. Embellishing the differentiation between innocence and

throughout the novel itself. By the end of the novel, Holden experiences an existential and intrapersonal-discovery through the coming of age and shows signs that he is ready to enter adulthood. Holden angrily tells us, “… I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody'd written 'Fuck you' on the wall... I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it, and how they’d wonder what the hell it meant…” Through Holden’s emotive and compassionate tone along with colloquial language, we are able

into the society is also a kind of not growing up, since socializing is also a kind of maturing. In the football game, Holden did not sit in the regular seat at the game, but he “was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill, right next to this crazy cannon that was in the Revolutionary War and all” (2). He said that he didn’t go down the game because he was kicked out of the fencing team. That could be because he did not blend into the society. Another quote also explained his loneliness, Holden

That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy” (Salinger 224). Holden is imagining children playing a game in a field of rye near a cliff, and his job is to catch anyone who comes near the edge. A job like this would make Holden very happy. Holden explicates this

He thinks just like any other teenager. He gets nervous about girls just like teenage boys do today. For instance, Holden says “I’m not crazy about talking to girls’ mothers on the phone anyway” (Salinger 129). He doesn’t like to talk to girls’ parents on the phone and that is relevant today because most boys don’t like to do that either. In addition, Holden also says “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It’s awful” (Salinger 19). This tells us that he

The Catcher in the Rye Final Assessment: Psychological Profile Name: Holden Caulfield Date of Birth: 01-03-1947 Age: 17 years old Testing Dates: 2-18-1960, 2-25-1960, 3-1-1960, 3-9-1960, 3-16-00, 3-22-1960 Reason for Referral: Holden Caulfield has recently been showing various signs of depression. A girl named Phoebe Caulfield, Holden’s sister, showed concern about her brother. One night she said to him, “You don’t like anything that’s happening” (Salinger, 169), and when he responded, “Yes

The world of adults is full of phonies and the only way to combat it is to be as innocent as a child. Today, people have become so self-interested that they fail to listen to everyone - even themselves. These are the points J.D. Salinger brings up in his novel The Catcher in the Rye. Throughout the novel, J.D. Salinger’s uses of voice, conflict, aposiopesis, irony, and metaphor emphasize these points. The Catcher in the Rye is a story of a battle to preserve innocence. The Catcher in the Rye follows

Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is about a character named Holden Caulfield and how he bounces around from private school to private school making it hard for him to settle down and become comfortable. Through hard times at a new school he attends, Pencey Prep, he is expelled and left not knowing what to do with his life. The message the author is trying to convey throughout the book is that one shouldn’t try to grow up too fast as Holden is consistently trying to save kids from outgrowing childhood

The stage between adulthood and childhood is inundating for every teenager going through this phase.It is as if you are stuck between two worlds that you are not accepted in.In the Catcher In the Rye,by J.D Salinger,Holden Caulfield, a puerile character growing into maturity,experiences the events of a mundane teenager;However, approaches it differently and suffers from his actions.During his interaction with the authentic world across Incipient York City,Holden perpetually endeavors to find who