"IF YOU REALLY want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is were I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." Holden Caulfield is the troubled teenage protagonist in the novel The Catcher In The Rye. J. D. Salinger writes about Holden's unusual physical and psychological characteristics. Holden tells the story from the first person point of view about his last day at Pencey up until present day (for him).
Holden is extremely judgmental about everyone he comes across. He criticizes people who are corny, insecure, boring, or in his words "phony." He believes that everyone is superficial. In his o
"Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone." When it comes to accepting things one does not like, there is often opposition. Change is something that Holden ardently opposes. He is tremendously pleased when he sees that the museum hadn't changed from when he was in grade school. Starting to live without someone that was there everyday is an enormous change. Deaths can be very traumatizing. Perhaps that is the reason Holden is so strongly against change, because of his brother Allie's death.
pinion, people act typical so that they will be looked at and accepted as typical. So, people who attempt to be typical or normal are merely "phonies." Whenever there is a conversation between another char
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