Essay On Holden Caulfield's Past Events
Holden Caulfield’s past events have affected his present actions, attitudes, and values of character in both positive and negative values. Some many notable past events that affected him in the future without him knowing were; when he didn’t take Pencey seriously and got kicked out of it for his grades, also when him and Jane were close friends and Stradlater brings her up, also when he gets a prostitute ordered to his house, and lastly when his little brother dies from an illness. All these past actions put Holden in either a positive or negative situation in the future, without him even realizing it. Deaths in a family are very difficult to deal and control with, nobody wants to ever be in that situation, but unfortunately we
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Well Holden is no different. When he starts getting emotional and feels depressed a man in his hotel’s elevator asks “Interested in having a good time, fell?” (Pg. 102) Holden was so depressed he didn’t stop to think and realize what he meant so he agreed to it. A few hours later a prostitute around his age shows up to his room. She enters the room and immediately starts taking off her clothing. Holden starts to realize that he doesn’t feel “sexy” but is in a more depressed state. He declines the intercourse, but will still pay her for coming, but the problem is that he only pays her ten dollars instead of fifteen dollars. Well, little does Holden know, a negative situation will meet with him tomorrow morning. A knock on his door wakes him up in the morning. It’s Maurice and Sunny, they want the rest of their money. Holden doesn’t want to give in, and thinks he is being chiseled out of his money. This makes Sunny mad and starts to physically beat him. They end up leaving with Holden’s five dollars. This is just another example of how a past event can positively or negatively affect you without even realizing it. In this case a negative present experience occurred because Holden agreed to have a prostitute arive in his room without him really thinking about it, because he was just so distracted by his chronic
Well Holden is no different. When he starts getting emotional and feels depressed a man in his hotel’s elevator asks “Interested in having a good time, fell?” (Pg. 102) Holden was so depressed he didn’t stop to think and realize what he meant so he agreed to it. A few hours later a prostitute around his age shows up to his room. She enters the room and immediately starts taking off her clothing. Holden starts to realize that he doesn’t feel “sexy” but is in a more depressed state. He declines the intercourse, but will still pay her for coming, but the problem is that he only pays her ten dollars instead of fifteen dollars. Well, little does Holden know, a negative situation will meet with him tomorrow morning. A knock on his door wakes him up in the morning. It’s Maurice and Sunny, they want the rest of their money. Holden doesn’t want to give in, and thinks he is being chiseled out of his money. This makes Sunny mad and starts to physically beat him. They end up leaving with Holden’s five dollars. This is just another example of how a past event can positively or negatively affect you without even realizing it. In this case a negative present experience occurred because Holden agreed to have a prostitute arive in his room without him really thinking about it, because he was just so distracted by his chronic