Depression In Catcher In The Rye

Stress, depression, and confusion, has made the protagonist a interesting character. The author J.D Salinger represents Holden in The Catcher in the Rye as a failing student at Pencey Prep trying to go through life the best he can. However Holden's life has not been easy many things have happened to Holden. Throughout Holden's life many things have hurt him and many things have helped him such as adults, children, women, and peers. How ever as throughout the book Holden has changed how he interacts with people. Adults in Holden's life have played a big role in changing Holden and attempting to make Holen who he is by the end of the book. In the beginning of the book Holden is failing his classes and adults around him try to help and find out why such as Mr. Spencer. “And how many are you failing in?”(Salinger 10). This quote is explaining that Mr. Spencer is interested on how many classes Holden is failing and why he is failing Mr.Spencer's class. “I doubt very much if you opened your textbook even once the whole term”(Salinger 11). This quote shows that Holden did not do much in school and this is why Holden is failing history and most likely why Holden is failing the other four classes. So as Holden struggles to pass classes and tries not to fail out of Pencey Holden does end up failing out of Pencey. Even though the teachers tried to
That trend point to depression and a little bit of craziness, especially at the end of the book when Holden is talking to a psychoanalyst. “A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here…”(Salinger 213). By the end of the book, Holden seems to be more appreciative of the world. “If you do, you start missing everybody”(Salinger 114). This shows that, by the end, Holden is compassionate about everyone he has met and that he misses them, even