His personality allows the reader to think a lot about who he really is and every aspect of his complex personality, way of thought and his role in the development of the book. He has a weird attitude and has a difficult personality.
This book which is set in the end of the 1940’s and beginning of 1950’s has as the main protagonist Holden Caulfield, he is characterized by his eccentric personality to say the least. This battle is an impossible one and until Holden realizes this he will never leave his land of illusion and adjust to the world.Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger is one of the most praised and important works of the modern American literature of the 20th and 21st century. This battle, through Holden’s eyes, is one of adulthood versus childhood. Holden’s whole life revolves around the battle of corruption and innocence. By doing this he destroys many incorrupt things that he has yet to experience. In my opinion, he wants to continue his life as an adult but a child at heart and mind. No one knows whether Holden wants to become an adult or stay a child. This is what keeps his personality in a state of ambiguity. Holden has yet to acquire many different aspects of adulthood. In respect to Jane Gallager Holden could possibly be in love with her but does not ask her in fear of her saying “no” but if she says “yes” he would not be able to come through an attribute of adulthood Holden has yet to acquire. He dies because of a refusal to take something back something that was true. James Castle is someone that Holden could possibly identify with. James Castle, Jane Gallager, the two nuns he spoke to in the coffee shop, and the little child on the curb of the road are a few. But there are people that Holden does like other than Pheobe and Allie. This characterization is often harsh and unjust to many of the people he attributes this characteristic to. Holden’s basic description of a corrupt person is a phony. The way he orders his drinks, dances with the two ladies in the hotel, and spends his money frivolously shows how Holden has accepted the reality of being an adult but can not come to terms with the fact that all children will also enter Holden’s corrupt society. By doing many of the things he does he displays a desire to grow up, to act mature, to ultimately blend in with society but he is restricted by his ideals of innocence. Holden finds corruption in almost everything he sees but does not yet even realize that he too is part of that corrupt world the minute he stopped being a child and wanting to be an adult. Pheobe, diametrically, has not yet been absorbed by society but is on her way and Holden nor anyone else can stop her.
Why does holden want to be the catcher in the rye movie#
has given his story to the movie business and does not like it because he wanted his brother to continue writing the little stories he loved so much. D.B., though, has already submitted to that corruption by “selling out” to the movies.
Pheobe, on the other hand, will have to enter the world sooner or later, and then she too will become corrupt. He will always be in Holden’s mind a little boy not affected by the dirty hands of society. The reason for this idolization is that Allie will never become corrupt. Holden idolizes Allie as a little brother who died. Holden wants to be the great savior of a helpless cause and does not realize he has fallen into the evil hands of corruption. Holden’s “catcher in the rye” analogy shows how he wants to save the children from this corruption but he never will. These experiences are what frightens Holden because this boy of sixteen has already been involved in many of the pleasures and problems that come from these experiences. He doesn’t understand that to grow does not mean to become corrupt but to become wiser through experience. Holden’s utter hate for the fact that we have to grow up and how he ties adulthood with corruption just shows how he has a large problem determining illusion from reality. These are a few obvious ironies in Holden’s personality. Drinking, ordering the prostitute, and using money are all things that grownups do but Holden yet still wants to remain innocent. Corruption is what Holden wants to avoid but cannot because he wants to grow up and act like an adult.
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