Thursday, October 6, 2011
Holden Cauflield strange boy
I the Novel of The catcher and the rye Holden is completely against people being phony. he always bashes on the prep kids and the smart kids because her thinks they are all fakes. but really when Holden constantly lies is he being any different? Holden faces a serious problem of being a hypocrite throughout the novel as he always does dome of the things he says he hates most. As far as mental instability goes i do believe Holden is a bit unstable in the fact that he is always depressed and excommunicates himself from the outside. I believe Holden is having a hard time coping with the death of his brother and the fact he was kicked out of yet another school. I think he is wary of what to expect from his parents and can not decide how to feel about any situation. Holden shows how he is unstable throughout the novel with his constant swearing and being judgmental of almost everything he sees. He is also very hungry for attention from a woman. Why? I think Holden is trying to cope with his loneliness by replacing it with some idle figure in his life as such random woman he wants to have sex with. So far i dislike Holden and everything about him in the novel.
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That was a good question you asked when you said that Holden constantly lies, so is he being any different. He is definitely a phony himself. But, I don't think that he's a phony because he lies about his identity and other things. Holden tries to make it seem like he's being himself by being different from the majority of people, when really he does the same exact things. He's not trying to be himself; he's just trying to be different than others. You also asked a good question when you asked why he's so hungry for attention from a woman. I don't think that it's necessarily because he's trying to cope with his loneliness; I think that he's trying to find someone out there that resembles Jane. Either that or he's getting practice with women so that when he does decide to see Jane again, he'll be emotionally ready.
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