Catcher in the Rye Essay

Explore how the choices individuals make can shape their identity.
Identity is form of cloak of which is able to be donned. It is clothing of which is how society manifests you and is trimmed, shaped and altered by experiences and interactions of your physical ,emotional and mental environments. Ultimately it is the way individuals perceive their experiences and surroundings which trims and shapes your cloak to either your or society’s fitting. This can be seen through the two texts of Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, of where Holden’s choices to venture out into the world and attempt to mould his identity in order to be accepted in his surroundings alters his complicated and intricate identity into one of which is used to try and fit in however, as a result of Holden’s choices, societies reaction to Holden’s attempts of which alters his identity yet again. Within Chobosky’s the Perks of being a wallflower, we witness Charlie’s attempt to fit into his surroundings through the act of altering his identity and the response his surroundings incur upon of which like Holden alters his identity due to his interaction with his surroundings.
Within Salinger’s the Catcher in the Rye, we witness Holden attempt to fulfil his inextinguishable desire to fit in with in surroundings, of which serves as a catalyst of the various and numerous remoulding’s of his identity and the hostile response he receives from society of which he recoils into a more desperate position after each attempt. Throughout The Catcher in the Rye we see Holden go out into the adult world in order to search for a form of belonging after being rejected from his peers within his numerous past schools, most recently Pency Prep and he family of whom he is ashamed to face. In order to deal with the rejections of his identity, Holden is driven into the adult world of where he attempts to fit in through numerous alterations and remoulding’s of his identity. This is seen through Holden’s naïve attempts to acquire