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One of the hardest things in life is to discover your true identity and figure out what you want to do with your life. Some people have figured it our since early stages in their lives, but it’s not that easy for everybody. There are people who have to wait until they are grown-ups, or there are even some persons who don’t figure out all their lives. In the novel “The Catcher in The Rye”, by J.D. Salinger, the main character is going through a process of self-discovery, but in his case he needed only some days to reveal his true identity.
The main character and in the same time the narrator is Holden Caulfield. Even from the beginning of the book the reader doesn’t know much about him. “If you really want to 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 don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth” (2). He is different by caring about stuff that really matter and not paying so much attention to details. What the narrator is trying to point out throughout the novel, is the change he goes through and the things that lead to those changes, so the other details about his childhood he considered unnecessary. The point where he starts the story is at a football game on a Saturday. “Where I want to start telling my story is the day I left Pencey Prep” (2). He got kicked out of school for failing most of the subjects, except English class. So he was supposed to return home, but as his parents didn’t know about it, he decided to return home on Wednesday, the day he was normally supposed to return. These couples of days were a life changing experience, even though he wasn’t realizing it.
There are some things that are different about Holden. He didn’t care about most of the stuff, not even about getting kicked out of school. Also he...