Catcher in the Rye

Summary of Plot         The leger the backstop in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger was rattling interesting. Holden Caulfield, a teenager tells most his insight about manner and world around him. Holden sh bes m each an(prenominal) of his opinions about people and leads the reader on a five day visit into his mind. Holden visualized an new(prenominal)(prenominal)s to be inferior to his own kind each(prenominal) lay off-to-end the book. He made several references as to how people are not as perfect as he was. The evidence he [Stradlater] fixed himself up to look good was because he was madly in love with himself. (pg. 27) Holden had an inferiority complex. He was horror-stricken of not having any special talents or abilities and used other methods to make him out to be a rough yobo male child. Boy, I sat at that goddam bar boulder clay around one oclock or so, getting drunk as a bastard. I could hardly see straight. (pg. 150) Holden tried all he could to fit in. He drank, cursed and criticized life in general to make it seem he was very cunning of these habits. Holden used the term phonies to describe more than a a couple of(prenominal) people in this book.

He used the term to be what a person is if they dont act naturally and follow other peoples manners and grace. Holden didnt like phonies, he thought of them as if they were nerve-wracking to show off. He didnt like it when they showed off because it seemed so falsify and unnatural every time they would do so. At the end of the first act we went out with all the other jerks for a cigarette. What a deal that was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life, everybody smoking their ears off and talking about the play so that everybody could hear how sharp they were. (pg.



126) Throughout the book Holden displays a lack of motivation for many things in which he should do. Holden couldnt even call up an old girlfriend whom he knew a long time ago. But when I got internal this phone booth, I wasnt much in the mood any more to give old Jane a buzz. (Pg. 150) Holden also had a problem getting his motivation together in tack together to complete schoolwork and succeed in his prep school. The Catcher in the Rye is a story of a boy falling from innocence to enter adulthood. An example of J.D. Salinger using symbolic representation to show Holdens Holding on to his childhood is in his name, Holden(Hold On). This is referring to Holden not wanting to enter society and all its phonies.

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