Psychological Profile: Holden Caulfield Part One: The patient is Holden Caulfield‚ a sixteen-year-old teenage boy. Caulfield’s appearance is tall for his age and surprisingly has quite a few gray hairs at the age of sixteen. Holden comes from an upper-middle class family. His family has enough money to support Holden with many luxuries including skates and expensive suitcases. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. Caulfield aren’t there to talk‚ care‚ and be there for Holden‚ which seems to drive Holden
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United States became entered World War II‚ and Salinger was drafted (French 24). Salinger was then sent to Signal Corps School‚ and then transferred to Counter-Intelligence Corps (French 24-25). During this time‚ he sent letters to Oona almost every day (French 25). Despite all the work of Salinger to keep his beloved girlfriend‚ she found another man. Forty-four years of age‚ this man was much older than eighteen year old Oona (Mori). The man she fell in love with‚ was a man by the name of Charlie
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Jerome David (J.D.) Salinger was an American novelist‚ born on January first of 1919‚ a year after the first world war came to an end. While the war may have inspired many writers‚ young and old‚ to write about the pain and anguish‚ the depth and drama of the battlefield‚ J.D. took a different approach. Salinger wrote Catcher in the Rye in the year 1951‚ and since then‚ it has been revered as an intelligent novel that truly captures the image of isolation‚ innocence (or lack of it)‚ and the unfortunate
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Extended Study – Comparative Texts Which techniques do J. D. Salinger and David Fincher use to explore the personal dilemmas of their protagonists‚ Holden Caulfield and Mark Zuckerberg‚ in The Catcher in the Rye and The Social Network? In David Fincher’s The Social Network and J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye‚ a story of two young men‚ Holden Caulfield and Mark Zuckerberg face many difficulties and ultimately are very vulnerable souls. The dilemmas that Holden and Mark face are alienation
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The two books‚ " Catcher in the Rye" and‚ " Rule of the bone‚" do have some parallels. Mostly‚ the main theme of the stories ‚ a young‚ confused‚ boy trying to find himself and attempting to figure out what they want out of life and what life wants out of them. That is pretty much where the similarities ended for me. First look at the people themselves. Holden Caufield was a financially well off kid‚ from a private school‚ he was intelligent‚ even though he always seemed to be looking for someone
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Thomas Kim Period 1 3/15/10 Who Exactly is this Compulsive Liar? Trivial and interesting are the personality traits that come to mind when thinking of the character‚ Holden Caulfield. The title of the book by JD Salinger reveals much about the personality of Caulfield. Holden Caulfield‚ the main character of The Catcher in the Rye‚ is explained in great detail with the title. The life experiences of Caulfield have shaped him in each and every way. Holden Caulfield’s personality is revealed
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in a less than perfect society. Throughout the novel Holden struggles with the fact that many young and innocent kids will grow up and see the world from a different perspective. He naturally becomes worried for all future generations who will one day grow‚ as he did‚ and loose their innocence. The fixation of youth and innocence can be seen in the title of the book‚ as well as throughout the novel. Holden has matured in many ways throughout the novel. He had grown from an immature child who
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Catcher In the Rye: The Quest For Love In many novels in J.D. Salinger’s library of books‚ there is a recurring theme of the loss of innocence of children‚ the falling and the confusions of childhood‚ and many other ideas that apply to the ideas of adolescence and the life of the average teenager growing up. Many of his themes occur in a short period of time in a child’s life that affects him/her in a very profound and significannot way. The idea of love is also a major theme that arises
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The Innocence of Youth Holden Caulfield‚ the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a complex young man‚ filled with many observations about the world around him. Most of his comments tend to be negative and judgmental; however he appears much more enthusiastic and about his younger siblings‚ and even his past. Events and situations that occurred‚ both in his past and over the course of the novel‚ show signs of Holden’s affection for innocence. Children also allow Holden to
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to Allie. Holden was being hospitalized at the night of Allie’s death; therefore‚ he wasn’t able to attend the Allie’s funeral. Holden states‚ “What I was really hanging around for‚ I was trying to feel some kind of a good-by” (Salinger 7). On the day he left Pencey‚ he was standing by the cannon and didn’t want to leave because wants to look for someone that actually care about him and willing to say goodbye to him. Sadly‚ he never got a closure from the place he left and
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