Life Gone Downhill For Holden
J.D. Salinger is an American who was born in Manhattan, New York. When he was younger he wrote short stories in secondary school, then he started writing for a magazine. His final original was in 1965 and it appeared on the, ‘The New Yorker’. In 1951, his novel, The Catcher In The Rye portrayed many different symbols representing isolation, depression, and comfort. Statistics show that combination of Depression and Isolation can negatively affect a person 's mental and physical health. If that person does not seek immediate help with a psychiatrist it can be harmful and eventually explode for keeping all their thoughts internally. Person going through these illness needs comfort just like Holden Caulfield holds …show more content…
Part of the reason that Holden is alone is because he always thinks people are phony. He also, judges people based on their actions, their words, and their knowledge. While there is a football game going on Holden is watching the game from a distance on the top of a hill; he hears everyone down at the football game cheering and yelling for their team, and having a blast (The Catcher in the Rye 3). While everyone else is enjoying the game with their friends, Holden is friendless and watching the game all by himself. Holden tries everything to land some companionship, but unfortunately people keep denying his request thinking he is too young to hang out. As Holden says to his cab driver: “Well-take me to the Edmont then ,” I said. “Would you care to stop on the way and join me for a cocktail? On me, I’m loaded.” “Can’t do it, Mac. Sorry” (The Catcher in the Rye 60). Even the cab driver rejects Holden’s invitation to go grab a drink with him even though Holden offers to pay for the drinks. This is how desperate Holden really is for companionship. Moving along, the fishing pole is in the ocean for Holden, but he is waiting for that one right fish to catch on and actually talk to him. According to Holden: “I sort of tried to make a date with her for when she got through working, but she wouldn 't do it. She said she was old enough to be my mother and all” (Works of J.D. Salinger …show more content…
Losing Allie was a hard thing for Holden to overcome. As Holden explains: “I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don’t blame them. I really don’t. I slept in the garage that night he died, and broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. —— but my hand was broken and everything by the time, and so I couldn 't do it” (The Catcher in the Rye 39). By breaking all the windows in the garage was not enough for holden so he ended up breaking his fist. Anger from his brother dying popped a thought in his mind. His little brother used to play baseball. Whenever Allie was bored, he would read poems from his baseball mitt. In addition, Holden still remembers Allie’s presence through his baseball mitt whenever he is feeling down. Holden’s roommate Stradlater asks him to write his composition paper for him, and Holden writes Stradlater’s paper on Allie’s mitt (Takeuchi 8). In memory of Allie, Holden writes his friends paper on Allie’s mitt to comfort his internal pain, comfort his feelings, comfort his stress from all the guilt he is feeling. Likewise, Holden does not enjoy the fact that when people go to the cemetery to visit loved ones and it rains. People can just go into their cars or have an umbrella to roof them under. What about the people that are buried? They can not receive any protection
J.D. Salinger is an American who was born in Manhattan, New York. When he was younger he wrote short stories in secondary school, then he started writing for a magazine. His final original was in 1965 and it appeared on the, ‘The New Yorker’. In 1951, his novel, The Catcher In The Rye portrayed many different symbols representing isolation, depression, and comfort. Statistics show that combination of Depression and Isolation can negatively affect a person 's mental and physical health. If that person does not seek immediate help with a psychiatrist it can be harmful and eventually explode for keeping all their thoughts internally. Person going through these illness needs comfort just like Holden Caulfield holds …show more content…
Part of the reason that Holden is alone is because he always thinks people are phony. He also, judges people based on their actions, their words, and their knowledge. While there is a football game going on Holden is watching the game from a distance on the top of a hill; he hears everyone down at the football game cheering and yelling for their team, and having a blast (The Catcher in the Rye 3). While everyone else is enjoying the game with their friends, Holden is friendless and watching the game all by himself. Holden tries everything to land some companionship, but unfortunately people keep denying his request thinking he is too young to hang out. As Holden says to his cab driver: “Well-take me to the Edmont then ,” I said. “Would you care to stop on the way and join me for a cocktail? On me, I’m loaded.” “Can’t do it, Mac. Sorry” (The Catcher in the Rye 60). Even the cab driver rejects Holden’s invitation to go grab a drink with him even though Holden offers to pay for the drinks. This is how desperate Holden really is for companionship. Moving along, the fishing pole is in the ocean for Holden, but he is waiting for that one right fish to catch on and actually talk to him. According to Holden: “I sort of tried to make a date with her for when she got through working, but she wouldn 't do it. She said she was old enough to be my mother and all” (Works of J.D. Salinger …show more content…
Losing Allie was a hard thing for Holden to overcome. As Holden explains: “I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don’t blame them. I really don’t. I slept in the garage that night he died, and broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. —— but my hand was broken and everything by the time, and so I couldn 't do it” (The Catcher in the Rye 39). By breaking all the windows in the garage was not enough for holden so he ended up breaking his fist. Anger from his brother dying popped a thought in his mind. His little brother used to play baseball. Whenever Allie was bored, he would read poems from his baseball mitt. In addition, Holden still remembers Allie’s presence through his baseball mitt whenever he is feeling down. Holden’s roommate Stradlater asks him to write his composition paper for him, and Holden writes Stradlater’s paper on Allie’s mitt (Takeuchi 8). In memory of Allie, Holden writes his friends paper on Allie’s mitt to comfort his internal pain, comfort his feelings, comfort his stress from all the guilt he is feeling. Likewise, Holden does not enjoy the fact that when people go to the cemetery to visit loved ones and it rains. People can just go into their cars or have an umbrella to roof them under. What about the people that are buried? They can not receive any protection