However, the fact that the adult society sees through his façade reinforces Holden's alienation from his society. In effect, Holden retaliates by rejecting adulthood and continues to criticize its flaws as he indulges in them. He passes judgment quickly on those that he feels are corrupt and calls them "phony." This only further worsens Holden's situation and even further detaches him from society and help. But how did such a vicious cycle of self-destruction start?
Coco Woods Kaplan University CM 206 According to the video, no it does not seem like Alan is listening. I say this because when Gretchen was telling him that she could spit stuff out fast but it wouldn’t be quality and when the other employee was trying to explain to him about his son, he didn’t want to hear it. He could have given them some type of response to their questions and still kept handling the situation at hand and not have had to deal with their personal issues. Even though being an employer you have to listen to your employers so that you can understand them because at the end of the day, they do have a life outside of work. It seems to me that Alan does not like this part of his job very much and that the employees
Both Charlie and Alan lost the lives they had once known. Alan lost touch with the person he once was, constantly being walked on by his coworkers and wife; he passively accepted photo classes and jigsaw puzzles he didn't want to do and allowed his equals in work to treat him like they were his superiors. Charlie lost his family and the only life he had known. Rather than trying to come to reconciliation with his loss he would distract himself with his music, video games, and kitchen remodeling. Both Charlie and Alan found it easier to not express their feelings than to try to overcome them.
The speaker is trapped in desire and cannot find his way out. He then goes and compares desire to a "...fool's self-chosen snare..." illustrating that desire is an act of foolishness, in continuation he accuses desire to be a "...web of will..." which is a difficulty brought by men upon themselves. He continues to use repetition on specific sets of words to emphasize his negative impact with desire. Another example is " With price of mangled mind...", an idea of him trying to accomplish the task of defeating desire yet he does not achieve anything but still loses the sanity he had left. The speaker demonstrates desire to be a trap that you won't ever be able to escape.
You get in trouble. You do bad things and I got to get you out.’ ” George starts getting sick and tired of having to run place to place just to end up somewhere where they will be told what to do, and where Lennie will get into more trouble. George’s vexation with this never-ending dilemma, caused by Lennie, leads George to fabricate a dream of Lennie and himself living off their own land without anyone to tell them what to do, as stated on pages 57 and 58; “ ‘We’d jus’ live there. We’d belong there. There wouldn’t be no more runnin’ round the country … we’d
While Holden uses his self-imposed alienation as a defense, he is unaware that it severely damages his well-being. He is closed off and secretive thus he is unconnected to the people around him (ex. his roommates) which is his reason for leaving his previous schools and Pencey Prep. He alienates himself to avoid relationships with people, so in the case of a death (like Allie’s death) Holden is not hurt. Although Holden thinks his self-imposed alienation is helpful, he is wrong.
Holden’s problem is not ‘phonies’, but his inability to accept reality. DO YOU AGREE? J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye depicts Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of the text, as a miserable and despondent adolescent consumed by depression. To an extent, it is inferred that his issues are not linked with the so-called ‘phonies’ that he so often blatantly despises, but more so his reluctance to accept reality. In the context of the novel, the definition for the term ‘reality’ would most suitably be discussed as the adulthood which one acceptingly transitions to subsequent to their adolescence.
He left his home on a search because he felt his parents and teachers had taught him everything they could offer him. Like Tyler Siddhartha is an anti materialist, he also feels people should not be attached to objects. He believes society/ culture is lacking and possibly not living up to its full potential. In Siddhartha’s path he goes alone without the help of others.
In certain situations some traditions can be broken I think without a doubt under circumstances such as this one. No tradition should promote the decline of the ability to learn and achieve brilliant things. And as he acknowledges his father in his childhood, he lets you know that his father too was an oddity who collected books from many different genres. So I guess you can conclude that this helped him make his decision to want to learn and not to accept the failure like the other children and/or Spokane Native American’s. Being under a roof with so many opportunities to step outside the tradition of “not learning” I would say definitely impacted his motivation on his quest to learn.
Men and women seek hope in his or her lives in order to make something of themselves useful, but they cannot find it because of the fact that they are too isolated by his or her surroundings. In the novel Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck illustrates Lennie’s friend, George, as a person who has a bit of hope, but is worried that his “partner” is going to ruins his life once again like at the time they were at Weed. George is often characterized as a person who has to take care of Lennie because he knows that the only person that could ever make things go wrong is Lennie. “Am I My Brother’s Keeper” specifically represents George because it shows that even though he has little hope on his side, he has to take of one’s life, and that is Lennie Small. When George has hope on his side, he says, “We’ll have a big vegetable patch and a rabbit hutch and chickens.