The Role Of Loneliness In Catcher In The Rye

Anyone who has been a teenager going through puberty can remember a time when they felt as if no one cared and that they will be stuck in the dark room of loneliness forever. When someone is going through puberty it can be a vicious cycle. If someone has very few friends or none at all they can come to crave companionship. This craving can lead to an obsession so that they can either find what they crave either from people of dubious character. Another thing that they can do is fully isolate themselves behind so many walls that they build their own world that hates the outside world. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the main character Holden Caulfield can be shown as having both of these tendencies throughout the novel. In the novel, he shows the continuing cycle of how loneliness and companionship happen in life. With Holden’s connection to loneliness and need for companionship he shows he was addicted to any companionship, that he could find. Holden’s addiction for companionship causes him to look in strange places. After arriving at
The cycle can be broken by someone bright opening the very door that was thought to be locked and lighting up the whole room, bringing joy and peace with them. Holden appears to have an addiction, not to the normal things like drugs or alcohol, but to companionship. It causes him to look in not the best of places, which could have ended getting him into some very bad trouble. It also shows how he can be affected by companionship is if it is genuine and can really pick him up. If the spark is not there, it can do more harm than good. Everyone can have some problems in their life that feel like will never go away. Even though Holden did not go about it the best way possible, he does still provide hope for the reader that anyone can find their way to the light at the end of the