Holden’s self inflicted isolation contributes to his fear of growing up and his negative attitude toward others and the world around him. The novel opens with the discovery that Holden has been expelled from his current boarding school for unacceptable grades and effort. This is not the first time Holden had been expelled from a school. Holden is fearful of arriving home earlier than expected and copping with his parent’s disappointment. He decides to stay at a hotel in New York City, close to his home, rather than return early from school to face his parents.
These four often get into trouble with their drunkenness. Education wise Peter has been known to have attended Providence high School in Rhode Island, but to have never graduated. He also has no college experience. This all may explain why his low intellect places him in a category below mentally retarded. His mental shortcomings have resulted in various accidents to other people; most notably the death of his step-father Francis Griffin, and injuries on multiple occasions to his wife Lois Griffin.
* Paul Fisher is a nerd. Will he always be a nerd, or become something else in his new school in Tangerine, Florida? Paul is afraid of everything, even his brother. “Erik he tried to kill me!” Paul Fisher the main character in Edward Bloor’s novel, Tangerine changes from a scared new kid in school, to a brave, strong young man with a bright future. Paul Fisher is a scared 7th grader that doesn’t stand up for himself.
Biff, said to his dad “you are a fake; you are a liar, a liar” (Miller, 1958). The infidelity hurt Biff so much that he lost all respect for his dad. Biff failure in life is a result of Willy’s Loman infidelity. Happy and Biff reminisce about the good old days when they were young. Although Happy, thirty-two, is younger than Biff, he is more confident and more successful.
Both Catcher in the Rye and Igby Goes Down are a clear representation of the youth rejecting the value of conformity in their contextual societies. Both Salinger and Steers utilize the characterisation of their young protagonists, Holden and Igby, to epitomise non-conformity. Both characters, of wealthy background, have been expelled from numerous expensive private schools due to inability to fit with social norms. Holden cannot stand the concept of the expensive prep school moulding him into something he does not want to be and hence, he fails to apply himself and gets expelled. Holden considers Pency Prep school, a symbol of conformist society, as “phoney” and full of “morons”.
2. When Holden steps off the curbs he begins to feel as if he was never going to get to the end of the street and that he is just endlessly falling down and nobody will ever see him again. 3. With all the bag language that Holden uses, he was so upset that curse words were written on a school wall because curse words are not part of his whole idea of childhood and innocence and the fact that they are written on the school walls, it worries Holden that the kids will read it, ask what it means and then spend time worrying about it. 4.
Character Development The Catcher in the Rye follows the story of Holden Caulfield, Holden is a sixteen year old, and who had just recently been expelled due to his academic application and score from his school called Pencey Prep. Holden narrates his story in a cynical/pessimistic and worn-out tone, he appears as a pariah with very few friends. He sees the world in an ugly and two faced way, finding it almost unbearable. At the start of the story Holden refuses to talk about his early life, only mentioning his brother D.B. and hints that he is bitter towards D.B.
He has many feelings of loneliness, betrayal, disgust, and most of all depression. But little to readers know that Holden of The Cather in the Rye is close to being a split image of J.D. Salinger. Holden Caulfield starts out in the book getting kicked out of yet another private school as a junior, some from a broken home, with his dad being a lawyer and his mother being a housewife. His younger brother died and his older is in Hollywood “prostituting” himself.
November 15, 2011 American Literature Symbolism in “The Catcher in the Rye” Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye” was published in the 1950's and considered controversial as a result of its content. “Many argue that Catcher is too immoral and too immature to be considered as a serious literature (Moore).” This novel follows, Holden Caulfield, in a mental institution where he is recovering from a recent mental breakdown. The entire novel is a flashback of the events that had led up to his emotional destruction. The journey begins him leaving the boarding school he had been attending because of lackluster grades. Holden had been sent to boarding school by his parents.
He realizes Ponyboy is failing his class and offers to raise his grade to a 'C' if he writes a good enough autobiographical assignment. The theme Ponyboy chooses for his assignment turns out to be the outsiders. Mr & Mrs.Cade Mr.Cade and Mrs.Cade are johnny's parents. They are very abusive towards each other and Johnny. They are alcoholics and care nothing about their son.