Holden rebels again society completely in Catcher in the Rye because he feels he should not have to conform to everyone else. A major example of him rebelling is the way he thinks about school. He fails out of just about every school he goes to. Not necessarily because he simply doesn't care, but I think it is because his parents send him away to another school every time he fails, so he decides he should just be rebellious and not do well.
Another way Holden is rebellious is when he smokes and orders drinks at the night clubs. He does this because he knows it is not socially accepted for someone his age to be drinking and smoking. He also invites a prostitute to his room at the age of sixteen, which only proves more that he would rather rebel and not conform to what normal people his age would do.
Holden being rebellious affects him because it will all eventually catch up with him in the long run. He may not realize that what he is doing now is not okay, but when he can not find a job because of failing out of high school, he will see that being a rebel was probably not the best option.
I see where you are coming from Nick, saying he is rebelling and all. But I am going to say that I don;t think that he is really rebelling. He isn't doing it to hurt his parents feelings or anything, he is doing all that stuff because that is just who he might be. Possibly mentally unstable, but who cares? He is just trying to be who he wants to be even though he does not know who that is just this second!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Nick. i think he is rebelling against everything that he is against or angry at in his life. School just ended up making him mad. Even tho he could have done his work he choose not to in his rebellion to contradict authority rule. Even though running away from school was not the correct choice I also believe that this was his idea of a rebellion the get people to give him attention in his life.
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