The author’s main purpose was to introduce the persona of the character Holden Caulfield from his perspective. He reveals his dominant trait by refusing to mention his early childhood that involves personal details about his parents. Instead, he focuses on his experience in Pencey Prep and discusses its impact on him.…
Holden left Pency Prep and took a train back home to New York City. He takes some time off from everyone telling him what to do and decided to stay at a hotel and try to find a woman to loose his own innocence to. He goes to a bar in the restaurant where he continuously tries to pick up women. The room is filled with "old, show-offy-looking guys and their dates" (69) except for three women who, in Holden’s opinion, were pretty ugly except for the blond one. He flirts and dances with them in the hopes of getting lucky.…
Growing up is scary. It’s hard and confusing. People are figuring out themselves. Not all adults will understand it because they come from a different generations. They had different experiences and lives. We go threw new things and new situations all the time. Nobody deals with problems the same way.…
Before Holden arrived at Pency he failed to meet academic standards at his previous schools that have “given him the axe”. The idea of Pency Prep seems to follow him everywhere because whoever he meets seems to know about it and how good of a school it is. It is a symbol of failure. Pency is not the first school Holden has flunked out of as a result his family is not too pleased with him and nonexistent academic ambitions other than in English.…
“Holden Caulfield flunks out of Pencey Prep in Pennsylvania and starts out on the terrible journey to his home in New York…. He must face his parents after this latest series of expulsions.”…
Holden’s career at Pencey school assignment has been marred by his refusal to use himself, and once failing four of his 5 subjects—he passed solely English—he has been verboten to come back to the college once…
· Holden begins his story in Pennsylvania, at his former school, Pencey Prep. He then recounts his adventures in New York…
All throughout the novel, Holden digresses about people he finds phony and the degree of hatred he has towards their phoniness. He talks about his older brother, DB, noting that he is a brilliant writer but hates that fact that he becomes a “prostitute” in Hollywood (2). Holden does not like that DB goes around looking like a big shot with his jaguar. He also does not like that DB wastes his talent in writing storylines for movies. This alludes to the next significant concept that Holden hates. Holden strongly dislikes movies in general and the people that love to see movies. He finds that movies are phony because it is just acting; the content of film is far from reality. Holden claims that people who enjoy movies are phony because they are just drawn to the superficial. Again, Holden demonstrates his hatred of phoniness through movies. The last aspect he hates about the phoniness of people is the arrogance and essence of superiority that is evoked. Holden explains that Pencey Prep “molds boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men who play polo” (2). However, he feels it is full of phoniness that Pencey is left with the idea that the school is full of polo players and hot shot students. In reality, no one plays polo and it is a standard school. Evidently, Holden demonstrates his hatred of phoniness through his numerous complaints and criticism of…
With only a few pages into the novel, Holden begins with a plethora of information about him and his family. He informs the reader that he must say his goodbyes with his history teacher, Mr. Spencer, for unknown reasons. In a moment of nostalgia he quickly remembers to mention that he has recently been expelled from Pencey Prep for flunking most of his courses. To the reader’s surprise Holden remains completely calm throughout his entire explanation of the expulsion, yet a hint of suspicion lingers after he states, “They kicked me out… I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know…
Everybody has a moment some point in their life where they feel as if they can not struggle any more. We see this in detail in The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden Caulfield, the main character, is a sixteen year old teenager who has not had the easiest life. The novel focuses on Holden’s journey from getting kicked out of private school in pennsylvania to having a wild weekend in New York City hiding from his parents, told from his room in a mental hospital near hollywood. Although it is told over the course of a couple of days, Holden is sub consciously fighting to keep his life from spiraling out of control. Towards the end of the novel, Holden is in his little sister Phoebe’s room after sneaking into his own apartment, and…
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…
Holden expresses this apathetic trend in everything he does. His carelessness with money is displayed by the end of the book, when he is forced to ask his younger sister Phoebe for money, “You got any dough Peob? I’m practically broke.” He also shows some early signs regarding lack of motivation in school. Holden reveals that Pencey is not the first school he’s had trouble with, he references a couple other places like “Whooton School” and “Elton Hills”. As school is seen as the guiding pathway to young adults’ futures, Holden’s lack of application implies his nonchalant perspective on his forthcoming…
Throughout the story, Holden searches for purpose in life after attempting to escape from conformist values by leaving his third prep school, Pencey Prep. However, his desire for individuality conflicts with the strong conformity in America in the 1950’s. While in New York City, Holden goes on a date with a girl named Sally Hayes. Holden expresses his hatred of materialism to Sally―indicating that he hates “living in New York” and “being introduced to phony guys that call the Lunts angels” (Salinger 145). After Holden suggests his idea to run away and live a non-conformist life together, Sally helps him realize that he possesses unrealistic dreams, stating that they will only experience “marvelous places” after…
Holden tries to fit into society but fails miserably. He is the manager of the fencing team at Pencey prep. On the way to a fencing match…
In this chapter, the reader gets the first glimpse of how he sees the world. This is also where the reader learns about Holden's carreer in Pencey Prep school. Holden explains his relationship with his parents and how he has grown distant from them.…