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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
1,016 wordsHolden Caulfield - The protagonist and narrator of the novel. When the novel opens, Holden is a sixteen year-old junior at a school called Pencey Prep; he has just been expelled for academic failure. Holden is intelligent and sensitive, but he narrates his story in a cynical, jaded voice. Though he never says so outright, he longs to live in a beautiful and innocent world, and finds the hypocrisy and ugliness of the world around him almost unbearably painful; his cynicism is his attempt to prote...
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Catcher In The Rye Glass Menagerie
1,134 wordsThe person someone becomes is influenced by the losses they have experienced in their life. In Catcher in the Rye the main character Holden Caulfield is devastated by the loss of his younger brother Allie to leukemia. The loss of Allie never leaves Holden's mind. It changes his perception of the world. In The Glass Menagerie Amanda Wingfield's husband abandons her and their two children Tom and Laura. For Amanda the only way to deal with the loss is to escape into a dream world. She forces this ...
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J D Salinger Allie Death
1,628 wordsThe Catcher Holden Caulfield is thrown out of Pency Prep and forced either to go home or to fend for himself in the adult world. Holden narrates J. D. Salinger s The Catcher In The Rye from first-person point of view. He struggles internally with the death of his brother. Also, he struggles externally while trying to find his place in the world. The story begins around Christmas at Pency Prep High School in Agerstown, Pennsylvania. It was a Saturday afternoon, and Holden was on his way to see Mr...
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Holden Caulfield Pencey Prep
694 wordsAuthor: J. D. Salinger Major Characters: Holden Caulfield Holden Caulfield is the main character and narrator of the story. The story consists of what he is telling a psychologist about several days that Holden spent in New York after being dismissed from Pencey Prep School. During the time he talks about he had been having a nervous breakdown. The death of his brother Allie, which he blames himself for, has made him depressed and sapped his motivation. Allie s death shows that Holden doesn t kn...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
1,505 wordsIn The Catcher In the Rye, J. D. Salinger describes many of the events, which occurred in his life as a maturing adolescent in the 1950 s. The main character, Holden Caufield, is an extremely complex character. His obsession with sex and money, demonstrates the mindset that existed during the 50 s. The new consumer culture encouraged people to be materialistic. Although Holden is not a materialist, he does spend money without thinking. It does not seem important to him that he has designer cloth...
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