Holden
Holden’s inability to stay consistent with his own ideals shows how childish he really is. In The Catcher in the Rye, Instead of acknowledging that adulthood scares and confuses him, Holden invents a fantasy that adulthood is a world of superficiality and hypocrisy. The presence of this separate world is shown through the countless times in the book that he contradicts himself. One such contradiction is his hatred for the movies, but the fact that he still goes to see movies fairly regularly and even uses different movie themes to somehow express how hurt he is show his commonly contradictory nature. “If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies. Don’t even mention them to me.” Lat
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Approximate Word count = 464
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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