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Final Response Journal: The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger’s American classic tells the story of a cynical and sardonic teenage boy’s journey during four particular days just before the Christmas holiday. Holden Caulfield has been expelled from his fourth consecutive private school and is wandering the streets of New York City desperately trying to find his place in society.
Several different themes arise and are established throughout the novel. Holden’s main goal is to resist the process of maturity. The Museum of Natural history signifies his fear of change. Holden believes that “[t]he best thing . . . in [the] museum [is] that everything always [stays] right where it [is]. Nobody’d move . . . [n]obody’d be different” (121). Holden likes the world to be silent and frozen, predictable and unchanging. Instead of acknowledging that adulthood scares him, he imagines it to be superficial and full of “phonies” while childhood is a world of innocence, curiosity, and honesty. A perfect example of this is Holden’s fantasy of the catcher in the rye field. The field represents childhood, and falling over the edge to your death is equivalent to adulthood. Holden Caulfield feel trapped on the “other side” of life in a world that he believes he doesn’t belong in. AS the novel progresses, it becomes apparent that Holden’s alienation is a way of protecting himself. His loneliness and depression encourages him into going on a date with Sally Hayes but his need for seclusion pushes her away. It almost seems as if he purposely sabotages his own attempts to end his loneliness with Sally and Carl Luce by being rude and uncivil. While out for drinks, Holden insults Carl Luce then proceeds to call him a “real friendly bastard” (148). Throughout the novel he drifts from one pointless encounter to the next. Holden is frequently lying and he even considers himself the “most terrific liar” (16) because it comes so naturally to him. On the train to New York, almost...
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