Catcher In The Rye
"Life is a game, boy. A game one plays according to the rules" Sallinger (8). Old Spencer suggests this to Holden Caulfield in J.D. Sallinger's The Catcher in the Rye, expecting he would listen. Even though Holden might hear what people say, it goes in one ear and out the other and he never actually listens. In this book, Holden depicts the three days of events happening after he gets kicked out of Pency Academy. Although Old Spencer and Mr. Antolini aren't major characters in the book, their perspectives of Holden are that he is a troubled, yet gifted and talented, teenager. Proof for Holden being disturbed in different forms is expressed in many ways during the three days. Mr. Antolini is one who puts it real well, "You're a very, very strange boy" Sallinger (193). Holden sometimes yells at people and all they do is try and help. He pushes everyone away from him that is close and everyone that he is not close to is a phony. There is an old saying that goes "pushing everybody away will eventu
Even though Holden might be troubled, he is extremely gifted. The feeling given when Holden describes his relationship with his English teachers is that he does well but does not apply himself. A specific time being when Mr. Antolini says, "I'll show you the door in short time if you flunked English...you little ace composition writer" (182). If Holden applied himself, he would probably go very far and do a lot. They will still be mean to him even though he is a good composition writer. You can see this stand out when Stradlater asks Holden to write a composition for him, about anything, and then goes ahead and says, "You always do everything so assbackwards" Sallinger (42) when he writes the paper about a baseball glove instead of a house. Aside from the fact that Holden is gifted, he is talented in many ways too. He has a way of meeting people, talking to them, and being extremely courteous to people. People he does not even know! Holden Caulfield really has a way with words. He sounds like he is an angel. Many people yea
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Approximate Word count = 702
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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