What Are The Changes In Holden's Life

Catcher in the Rye is a novel told by a teenage boy, Holden Caulfield while he was undergoing treatment in a mental hospital. His story began with dropping out of his fourth school, Pencey Prep. According to the things and people he encountered in the New York City himself, many readers think Holden is an example of a careless and untrustworthy young man struggling with transition to the adult world. While I argued if Holden’s life story continues, he is going to live a productive life based on noticeable changes of his ability to handle personal relationship over the development of the plot.

As a teenager, Holden seems to not care about anybody around him. To him, adulthood is full of phony individuals, those who had no similar experience as him or simply those who he did not know well enough. However, Holden is a caring and ingenious character in another perspective. His intense appreciation to his parents’ care was revealed when he found the brand new ice skates sent by his mother “depressed him a little”. Especially, he was touched by his mother's unconditional love, a vivid image of her “asking salesman a million dopy questions”. Moreover, Holden’s empathy also extends beyond his parents. At a room in Edmond hotel, his dialog with the
The moment with Old Phoebe in the rain was a happy ending with a positive message compared to any of the story and experience Holden shared earlier. Holden clear knew this was the moment of mutual understanding and love that he enjoys as a brother, a man or a person. And he did not feel like talking about anything afterward the rain in the zoo. He admitted that he miss everybody including Ackley, the one doesn’t fit in and Stradlater, the one who had trouble with him. A person only miss the past if the current environment was different. He missed these people because he felt the relationship they could have built and how both of them would