Holden Caulfield Misfit
Catcher in the Rye
Lauryn Altman
The initial publisher of Catcher in the Rye thought Holden Caulfield was insane. In the story “Catcher in the Rye” by, J.D. Salinger, Holden was a 16 year old boy who kept being sent to different boarding schools. He had gotten kicked out of a few, before wanting to run away and not go back to the schools. His reason for being kicked out is because everyone in his schools were phony and he did not like it. Holden and society are a misfit, but Holden is the problem in this story. One example, Holden does not think before he does something. He blurts things out without thinking of the consequences of his actions. The second example is, he alienates himself from the rest of the world. He does not like a lot of people because he feels they are phony. Oddly enough, he himself has also been phony in the story. Lastly, he tries to drink his problems away. All of these signs add up to what makes Holden a misfit. One example, Holden does not think before he does something. He will blurt out anything that pops into his head and does not care about the consequences at the time. We see this when Holden shouts out at Sally that he loves her, and wants to runaway with her. On page 125 Holden …show more content…
In chapter 7, on page 52, Holden yells “sleep tight, ya morons!” Holden alienates himself by leaving the school. He could not deal with the people from that school anymore so he thought the best thing to do is run away since he was already being kicked out. It does not always matter if he is with people or not, sometimes even when he is with people he feels lonely. “I got a feeling of so lonesome and rotten, I even felt like waking Ackley up.” (50) Holden was in the room with Ackley and was with Stradlater before, yet he still felt lonely. He could never find someone that could fully understand him, except Allie. Once he was gone a big part of Holden left with
Lauryn Altman
The initial publisher of Catcher in the Rye thought Holden Caulfield was insane. In the story “Catcher in the Rye” by, J.D. Salinger, Holden was a 16 year old boy who kept being sent to different boarding schools. He had gotten kicked out of a few, before wanting to run away and not go back to the schools. His reason for being kicked out is because everyone in his schools were phony and he did not like it. Holden and society are a misfit, but Holden is the problem in this story. One example, Holden does not think before he does something. He blurts things out without thinking of the consequences of his actions. The second example is, he alienates himself from the rest of the world. He does not like a lot of people because he feels they are phony. Oddly enough, he himself has also been phony in the story. Lastly, he tries to drink his problems away. All of these signs add up to what makes Holden a misfit. One example, Holden does not think before he does something. He will blurt out anything that pops into his head and does not care about the consequences at the time. We see this when Holden shouts out at Sally that he loves her, and wants to runaway with her. On page 125 Holden …show more content…
In chapter 7, on page 52, Holden yells “sleep tight, ya morons!” Holden alienates himself by leaving the school. He could not deal with the people from that school anymore so he thought the best thing to do is run away since he was already being kicked out. It does not always matter if he is with people or not, sometimes even when he is with people he feels lonely. “I got a feeling of so lonesome and rotten, I even felt like waking Ackley up.” (50) Holden was in the room with Ackley and was with Stradlater before, yet he still felt lonely. He could never find someone that could fully understand him, except Allie. Once he was gone a big part of Holden left with