The Catcher And The Rye :: essays research papers

Love, Affection, and Adulthood      In J.D. Salinger’s disputable 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, the primary character is Holden Caulfield. At the point when the story starts Holden at age sixteen, because of his horrible scores is kicked out of Pencey Prep, a boys’ school in Pennsylvania. This being the third school he has been removed from, he is in no rush to confront his folks. Holden goes to New York for a few days to adapt to his mistake. As James Lundquist clarifies, â€Å"Holden is so brimming with hopelessness and forlornness that he is truly disgusted the vast majority of the time.† In this novel, Holden, a desolate and confounded young person, endeavors to discover love and course in his life. Holden’s story is sensible in light of the fact that numerous adolescent’s face comparative difficulties.      J.D. Salinger presents Holden Caulfield as a confounded and troubled pre-adult. Holden is an ordinary adolescent who needs to discover a feeling of having a place. All however Holden’s fixation on â€Å"phonies† overwhelms him. Dan Wakefield remarks, â€Å"The things that Holden finds so profoundly terrible are things he calls â€Å"phony†-and the â€Å"phoniness† in each occasion is the nonattendance of affection, and , regularly the replacement of affectation for love.† Holden was ousted from Pencey Prep School not on the grounds that he is dumb, but since he simply isn't intrigued. His disposition toward Pencey is everybody there is a fake. Pencey causes Holden to feel desolate and confined in light of the fact that he had not many companions. Holden’s sentiment of estrangement is seen when he doesn’t go to the greatest football match-up of the year. His remarks on the game: â€Å"It was the last round of the year an d you should end it all or something if old Pencey didn’t win† (2, Ch. 1). This additionally clues to Holden’s fixation on death. Holden can’t discover a since of having a place in the school in light of all the purported fakes. Holden discusses Pencey’s superintendent just like a fake. Holden says that on appearance day the dean will give no consideration to the silly looking guardians. Holden depicts his not being intrigued by saying, â€Å"all you do is concentrate with the goal that you can learn enough to be sufficiently keen to purchase a goddam Cadillac sometime in the not so distant future, and you need to continue making trust you care the slightest bit if the football crew loses†(131, Ch. 17). Holden couldn't care less for school or cash. He simply needs everybody to be earnest and legitimate. Holden's fixation on fakes makes him have no positive grown-up good examples to follow.