himself in the adult world. Holden narrates J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye from

first-person point of view. He struggles internally with the death of his brother. Also, he

struggles externally while trying to find his place in the world. The story begins around Christmas

at Pency Prep High School in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. It was a Saturday afternoon, and Holden

Ever since the death of his brother, Allie, Holden has a hard time becoming close with

anyone. The story revolves around Holden after he is kicked out of Pency Prep. He constantly

makes comments about how depressed he is and how he wishes he was dead. Holden is a tall,

skinny, sixteen year old male with a extremely bad habit of lying. He lies about anything and

everything. He is not responsible, and he often acts immature. Also, he is a heavy smoker, which

causes him to never have any wind, and drinker. He has some gray hair in his crew cut which

seems to be attributed to his constant stress. As Holden tries to fit into the adult world by

himself, he soon realizes that his family are the only ones ther

he was failing all classes but English, they told him not to return after Christmas break. It was a

Holden not only broke all the windows in the garage, but he also slept in the garage that night.

close to other people. Also, Mr. and Ms. Caulfield become indifferent after Allie's death. In fact,

finally decides to go home because he realizes that his family is all that he has.

The climax of this story has to be when Holden tells Phoebe he is going to run away at the

When he gets to the carrousel inside the zoo, he buys Phoebe a ticket. He begins to remember all

His parents wanted to have him psychoanalyzed. From that point on Holden is confused and not

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Approximate Word count = 1609
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)