Holden Caulfield from “The Catcher in The Rye” Essay

The Catcher in the Rye the reader crowd out see the world through his eyes as he is the one narrating the story in start person. Holden is a young teenager, the age of sixteen who is emotionally disturbed and confused boy who is entering the travel of adulthood. Holden is a typical teenager who is rather irritated and disgusted by the society that surrounds him. To me he comes across as a witty individual because of the way he makes fun of, as he correspondings to look for it the phony good deal in society he comes across with in the novel. He is from a family create of twain parents who seem to be quite wealthy, as they live in an expensive part of red-hot York most people have to be wealthy to live in New York. Holden also was two bothers, D.B. and Allie, Allie whom is dead at the age of thirteen and he has a younger sister Phoebe.During the novel we emit that Holden is rather depressed young man because of his past, with the death of his brother and the failings of his grades in the recent schools he has be to, he has become unhappy which leads him to have a breakdown. It seems that Holden is very dissatisfied with life and has never had either help during his time of confusion so I figure he is rather week and in some parts of the novel he feels like committing suicide.Holden has a huge sense of moral values, which oft seems to interfere with other peoples loss of values. Because of other peoples values he gets frustrated and thinks people are phony. Holden seems to be a rather mean person as you read his feelings and how he feels towards people but it is only what he thinks. When Holden does something wrong he feels really unrighteous about his behavior and it often eats him up inside. Like the time when he went out with Sally Hayes and he calls her a pain in the ass when she refuses to run away with him, after he feels really guilty and tin can barely stop thinking about it. He is also a person who cant get things out of his mind when thi ngs bother him like when Ward Stradlater goes out with his old fille Jane Gallagher throughout the novel he thinks about it a lot and wonders how the date went.Holden hates the movies and loves books. Holden behavior while he is in New York going to bars and meeting women he acts like a adult by smoking and drinking, but he is very critical to others that live that kind of lifestyle.It would be rather expectant to see myself as Holden or even acting like him even for a day because Im very different from him and Im not as critical towards people as he is. I think it would be difficult to be friends with him because I would always be enquire what he is thinking about me and usually when he does think of someone it is always in a negative way. But still it was easy to identify him because I have friends that are sort of like him and they act the same way.