Holden is afraid of growing up and becoming an adult – Discuss J.D. Salinger’s unique novel ‘The catcher in the Rye’ explores the life of a cynical teenager, Holden Caulfield, who is stuck between childhood and adulthood. Salinger highlights that Holden’s goal is to resist the process of maturity and entering adulthood. This is evidenced and demonstrated by Holden’s persistent fear of change, his strong opinion on the ‘phonies’ of adult world, his difficulty of moving on from the past and his impulsive personality. Holden’s fear of change contributes to his resistance of the process of maturity.
Making Fun of an Audience In Mark Twain’s “Advice to Youth” satire is integrated into the text to make fun of an audience, even though he gives “…Didactic, instructive,” or “Good advice” (291). He criticizes the standard relationship form between children and their parents, specifically attacking the lack of humor between children and parents. When parents take things way too seriously when something “bad” happens which is not the best approach to solve minor problems that arise. Twain is skilled in many different art forms of language. He advises the reader to learn the same skill sets early on in life so that they can take advantage of the opportunities in front of them.
Despite Holden’s longing for adulthood, Holden strives to protect the young from it. He does not want them to experience the pain he is feeling, and therefore fantasies to save them from falling into maturity. The quote, “ I keep picturing all these kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids,and nobody’s around..except me. And I’m
Cassandra Wigfall Hoochie-mom As today many women are call ‘hoochie-mom’ because of the way they dress. There are many women in the United State who dress “easy” or wear sexy clothes. Many female are called a ‘hoochie-mom” because of their high heel, short skirts, low cut tops, and even the color they wear in their hair. We also called women ‘hoochie-mom’ who is gold digger and the way she look. Most men like the way a ‘hoochie-mom’ look and will go out on a date with her, but he would not let his mother meet her in many cases.
Holden, the Mature Man Throughout J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, the main character, searches for an impractical ideal-- to cling onto his childhood and his innocence. Believing that children are pure and that all grown-ups are “phonies,” Holden’s quest is to preserve childhood within himself and children around him. Placing symbols to stress Holden’s immaturity and impossible ideal, Salinger illustrates his unrealistic goals. Although Holden remains immature for the majority of the novel, as the story progresses, Holden becomes a new person and discovers his true self.
Socializing is more important to Charlie, than being a thief. Charlie bounces from the way of being an adult, between the ways of being a child. He keeps telling himself if he gets caught, then he might as well have his smoke. He sees himself brave and a step closer to be an adult. But he is also frightened of getting caught, and doesn’t dare to move, or switch the light on.
“What should we drink?” the girl asked. She had taken off her hat and put it on the table.“It’s pretty hot,” the man said.“Let’s drink beer.”(Hill like White Elephants, Hemingway, First para). Also their server is a woman and this shows me that she is unmarried because if she was married she would be at home taking care of her house instead of working at the bar. This is a typical woman’s duty to serve. There were a lot more woman servers back in the day then to now.
She manages to speak not only from the perspective of the prostitute but also from the perspectives of the male painter and briefly, the Queen of England. The economic situations of the poet and the artist are fairly similar and they are described as “both poor” and making their living how they can and this is enforced when the prostitute states that she is concerned “with the next meal”. However, while the male painter may become wealthy by selling his artwork so that the “bourgeoisie” may view them in art gallery, she has no such prospects. This results in subjects of art, many of who were women, being objectified and exploited. The prostitute is also presented as being intelligent, a trait not typically associated with women of her profession.
This echoes one of the themes of this novel—adolescent confusion on the way to the adult world and the pain of growing up. As what Holden did before, he alienated himself from the outside phony world so as to protect the inner fragile, confused self. He labelled people around him as phonies and morons but it never downed on him that he was also one of the phonies who would flatter someone on mouth but curse him in heart. He didn’t know what he wanted to get from the adult
I think that this pessimism of his is a way to protect himself from his own weaknesses, and that he do this partly so that he can forget how boring and unfair the adult life can be, easily said he does not wont to grow up because he is afraid that he will realize his own flaws and be crushed emotionally because of this hard realization. And that is also one thing that marks out who Holden Caulfield really is, he is a boy who does not know how he should manage how he feels and therefore he is afraid of his own feelings in a strange kind of way. To sum up Holden Caulfield-s personality from this brief analysis I would say that he is a complete emotional wreck-ship that has hit the bottom and having a hard time getting up to the surface. Holden