Holden Caulfield's Breakdown
Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger suffers from an emotional breakdown that is shown throughout the novel. Holden’s depression is brought on in a few different ways. His relationships with most people, the death of his brother and a classmate, his love for Jane, and his troubles in school were the main contributions to his depression. It was these few things that brought about his emotional breakdown. One of the first steps of Holden’s breakdown was the death of his younger brother Allie. Three years before Holden tells his story from the rest home, Allie died from leukemia. He was very intelligent and used to write poems in green ink on a baseball glove so he had something to do when people were at bat. Holden had the glove now, and he even wrote a composition for Stradlater about it. Holden never went to Allie’s funeral, so he never had a chance to say good-bye. In the
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Approximate Word count = 612
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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