Holden allows the strong feelings and emotions of death, society, school

and innocence to dominate his life. Holden is a very sensitive boy who can not

ignore his problems, instead he dwells on them. These feelings and emotions

are dominant because Holden believes strongly in them.

The strong negative feelings that Holden has for his school and it's

community are present because of it's concern for an image. When students do

not put in they are expelled to keep the schools high academic rating, This is

represented when Holden says "I got the axe. They give guys the axe quite

frequently at Pencey." he does not like this as it does not allow students to be

individuals and be who they really want to be. Another reason Holden dislikes

school so much is because the way teachers have an unfair authority over their

students. Mr Spencer used his authority when he read out Holden's paper.

living that seems wonderful, although it is very false. Holden does not like the

makes them see that the world is a hypocritical place to belong to and that they

example of this is when Holden says "If there is one thing I hate, it's the

movies." Holden also dislikes the actors. He feels that they do not act like

with his bare fists. When Holden felt lonely he would think of Allie, this is

The death of Holden's bother has effected him tremendously. When

reading me that crap out loud. I wouldn't've read it out loud to him if he'd

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Approximate Word count = 681
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)