Holden Caulfield
LiNkS
In the beginning of the book Holden was kicked out of his most recent school, Pency Prep. He decided not to go home so that he wouldn’t get into trouble Holden wandered aimlessly through NYC for a few days drinking and meeting up with acquaintances that he always referred to as “phonies” in the end of the book Holden realizes that he does want to be at school and he actually likes all the people he refers to as phonies, and he misses them.
3 quotations
1)"If you really wanna hear about it, the first thing you;ll probably want to know is where i was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David copperfield kind of crap, but i dont feel like getting into it, if you want to know the truth."
I choose this quotation because it is from the very start of the book and it portrays how depressed Holden is in the beginning and how much he doesent really care about anything, from this point in the book Holden only continues to get more and more depressed.
2) "It was getting daylight outside, boy i felt miserable, i felt so gaddam depressed you can't imagine."
This quotation is from the beginning of the book, soon after Holden goes on to explain how much he misses his dead brother, and how bad he feels about leaving him out when he went to play with his friends, Holden thinks about how much he misses his brother, and all this does is make him more depressed than he already is.
3)It's full of phonies, and all you do is study so you can learn enough to be smart enought to be able to buy a goddam Cadillac and you have to keep making believe you give a damn if the footbal team loses, and all you do is talk about girls and liquor and sex all day and everybody sticks together in these dirty little goddam cliques"..."Lots of boys get more than that out of school"..."I aggree, I aggree They do, some of them but thats all i get out of it, see?"
I choose this Quote because It shows that holden is so Depressed he can make anything out to be as bad as possible. He Completely refuses to see the good in anything about anyone else, he simply passes people off as being phony instead of risking liking them.
Depression (psychology), mental illness in which a person experiences deep, unshakable sadness and diminished interest in nearly all activities. People also use the term depression to describe the temporary sadness, loneliness, or blues that everyone feels from time to time. In contrast to normal sadness, severe depression, also called major depression, can dramatically impair a person’s ability to function in social situations and at work. People with major depression often have feelings of despair, hopelessness, and worthlessness.
Poem based on catcher in the Rye Untitled, Anonymous
I woke up singing this morning.
I mean, I was happy and all.
But last night, what I really felt like
was jumping out the window.
All I could see were these phonies -
I never left the house though.
They were on TV, in books and stuff,
acting out madman stuff in the goddam movies.
I swear sometimes I think I'm crazy,
surrounded by these goddam princes
making out like life's perfect and all.
That kills me.
Then someone wakes them up,
and they all get sore as hell about it.
But I lie singing in bed -
there goes my crazy sense of humour again...
Holden Caulfield, the narrator of The Catcher in the Rye, begins with the novel with an authoritative statement that he does not intend for the novel to serve as his life story. Currently in psychiatric care, this teenager recalls what happened to him last Christmas, the story which forms the narrative basis for the novel. At the beginning of his story, Holden is a student at Pencey Prep School, irresponsible and immature.
Holden refuses to tell what happened in the end and how he got sick, and tells how people are concerned about whether or not he will apply himself next year. He ends the story by telling that he misses Stradlater and even Ackley People who he referred to as phonies.
