Holden Caulfield's 'Phd In Catcher In The Rye'

The Catcher In The Rye Essay, PTHD 10/31/2016 Mickell Mangel Welty P.2
The Catcher in the Rye consists of many events in regards to the main protagonist, Holden Caulfield, not accepting the unconditional love given to him by a series of characters throughout the novel. For the information the book provides, Holden is a sensitive teenager that has many psychological and social problems. Could he have PTSD? Sure he can, although if that were the case, his PTSD would-of only been worse as the reader digs deeper into the material. There were many events that gave us evidence to conclude that Holden could have had PTSD. At the end he takes those baby steps into adulthood and gets help from a mental institution when he finally had
With an open mind, imagine that a group of classmate bullies could cause someone to fall to their death, still almost no one but a teacher would want to get any-where near the victim. Imagine; the bullies would only get expelled for being poor performers, instead of going to jail like killers (p. 170). Holden’s PTHD worsens as the novel progresses mainly because he does not feel like he is accepted into society. He goes from one person to the next. Not to mention his trust issues, they cause him to shut people out making him think that he does not have unconditional love when he had it the whole time. A student advisor named Luce speaks sexually and inappropriately to impress younger boys and tries to separate everyone so nobody can follow up with any informal remarks (p. 143, 147). A lot of the people around Holden toil with his trust