Patient Analysis Report: Holden Caulfield‚ age 17‚ was brought to me‚ Dr. Joseph M. Guerrieri M.D. at Sutter Center for Psychiatry‚ by his parents as a result of his recent behaviors. Holden is a 6‘2” tall and healthy young man. In multiple therapy sessions he has brought up his family and friends. One family member in particular that was brought up was his younger brother‚ Allie‚ who passed away of leukemia when Holden was 13 years old. (Salinger 49) Allie’s death seems to be the root of Holden’s
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taken from the perspective of Holden Caulfield. Holden is a sixteen-year-old student at an assumed boarding school‚ where we are in the first person of Holden which lets us discover his character from his speech‚ thoughts and actions [indirect] and his opinions and descriptions of Mr Spencer‚ his history teacher [direct]. He was sitting in a big leather chair‚ all wrapped up in that blanket … He looked over at me when I knocked. “Who’s that?” he yelled. “Caulfield? Come in‚ boy.” He was always yelling
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D. Salinger‚ the protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ is a highly reliable narrator or the storyline. Holden communicates his emotions truly and leaves them embedded in the text uncensored throughout the text. For example‚ upon meeting two nuns in a restaurant in New York City‚ he genuinely states that he “enjoyed talking to them a lot… [he] meant it‚ too” (Salinger 112). This quote represents how Holden strongly reveals any true emotions he feels to the reader. Holden also does not cease to inform readers
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Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ Holden Caulfield is a 16 year old boy from New York City. He recently got the ax from his school‚ Pencey Prep‚ for failing four classes. He ends up roaming around the streets of New York City for three days‚ after leaving school early for Winter Break. Through Holden’s adventures‚ he becomes addicted to smoking‚ drinking and going out to night clubs. This conclusion leads me to think that he has the common issues that teens deal with daily. Although Holden secludes himself from
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Salinger ’s The Catcher in the Rye‚ the narrator‚ Holden Caulfield‚ is an unreliable narrator. Discuss and analyze the text to support your argument. “I’m the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life” (Salinger 14). JD Salinger’s character Holden Caulfield admits himself that he is unreliable. The author portrays Holden as a teenage boy that brobdingnagianly lies to people that he doesn’t know. This makes the reader question if he lying to us? Holden does lie on many occasions‚ but usually it is
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From the beginning of Catcher in the Rye‚ Holden Caulfield has kept himself on the outskirts of society. The first time he really demonstrates this is on page 5‚ when he’s describing the view from on top of Thomsen Hill. Everyone is at the game‚ screaming and cheering for Pencey to win. He had just gotten kicked out of Pencey Prep for failing four of his five classes‚ so him standing on top of the hill is both a literal and metaphorical statement of how he doesn’t belong there. By being physically
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Catcher in the Rye is about a young protagonist‚ Holden Caulfield‚ who tells the story about his life from a mental institution and how he got himself into that situation. Holden is not as perfect as he wants to be‚ due to his constant lying‚ his tendency to judge others and the negative situations he gets himself in. His inability to recognize that he is a phony and a hypocrite directly contributes to his physiological problems. Holden Caulfield thinks he is perfect‚ but yet he claims to be a
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Holden Caulfield is your regular teenage guy‚ or so he longs to be. Throughout J.D Salinger’s entire novel‚ The Catcher in the Rye‚ we see clear evidence that Holden is alienated from most people‚ and that he does this by choice. Our narrator sees the adult world as a dirty‚ perverted place‚ full of phonies and hate; thus the only people who are ‘acceptable’ to him‚ are children who are still pure and ‘clean’. Very early in the first chapter‚ Holden begins to express his solitude. “Anyway‚ it was
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critiquing. There is a strong resemblance of Holden Caulfield to J.D. Salinger in which one could say it is quite autobiographical about Salinger’s views of the world. Whereas Holden gave up the dream of ditching society and living by himself away from everyone else‚ Salinger didn’t. After the success of the novel put him in high demand in the public eye‚ he withdrew and lived a life of isolation. Salinger’s early life indeed paralleled that of the character Holden in
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In The Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger‚ the protagonist Holden Caulfield experiences myriad personal difficulties originating from the tragic event of his brother’s death from cancer. Subsequently‚ his perspective towards the whole world has deteriorated into a pessimistic attitude‚ derived from his own personal sense of inferiority. As a result‚ Holden feels isolated and alone. In his desire to feel connected to someone‚ he travels home to visit his sister‚ Phoebe‚ hoping to receive emotional
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