He is depressed, and in need of someone to talk to and to spend time with. His brother, Allie, was very important to him. When Allie died, Holden was a wreck, and is still affected by it today. He is also mad about his other brother, D.B., for leaving for Hollywood to become a “big time writer.” Holden is severely depressed by prior events in his life, and has no one to turn to for help and advice. In conclusion, the course of events that happened prior to Holden’s attending Pencey had changed who Holden was negatively, and this is apparent in his lack of attempt to become
He is overwhelmed with many spiritual questions. In the novel, Antonio thinks to himself, “Did God listen? Would he hear?” (23) Florence was Antonio’s friend who did not believe in “God”. For many reasons, such as his mother dying when he was young, and his father drinking to his grave. Florence didn’t understand how “god” could let this happen to him.
He became a drunk when he knew Francie would be born. He could not handle the idea of having children at a young age. Johnny would drink constantly to get rid of his problems. He was not mature enough to handle his problems the way he should have. It deeply affected his family, and in the end, he wasted his life away.
For example, most teenagers do not try to commit suicide. However, in this movie, Conrad Jarett tries to kill himself. He attempts suicide because he is depressed about his older brother's death. He lost his brother in a boating accident and he blames himself for his death. He believes that he could have prevented the accident by coming in from the sea when the waters began to get rough.
One of the major reasons for Holden’s depression is failing at many different things. Holden does not have any close friends to talk to and has a very hard time establishing long term relationships. Another cause for his depression is the death of his younger brother Allie, he has always thought that the world would have been better off if he had died instead of his brother. There are many reasons for Holden’s depression including multiple failures, having very few friends, and the death of his younger brother Allie. A large portion of Holden’s depression comes from failing multiple times.
The first lesson is terrible, and even though Berto had given specific details about the exercieses, Jon is still very close to drown twice which he describes as unendurable. "You are nervous under the water?" "and above the water" The lack of calmness makes Jon very nervous, and his probably afraid of dying. this is also possibly a reason why Jon drinks, to calms his nerves. Later at the reef.
He didn’t think about those choices in his earlier years when he was robbing people blind. He only thought about it when he was getting old and he knew his day would be coming and even then he was still a hypocrite. He had a choice to make things right when his friend came to him and asked him for more time. But the greediness in him wouldn’t allow him to do it. Tom Walker lived and died with the consequences of his
He was scared, felt lonely and wanted to do anything to stay alive. Elie learned from this whole devastating event in History. He didn’t continue to struggle as much as he did in the camps. He had no more family with him or alive. Elie was bitter in a way.
His stories and poems reflects on his life since he didn't really have a fulfill life due to either the lack of finances, gambling, debts, and alcohol problems. After his death people started taking interested in his work due to the mysterious way that he died. Some say that he was mugged, and some even say that he died to the amount of alcohol he consumed. No one really knew what happened to Edgar Allan Poe on his final days his life which led to many questions. His death influences the people to take a peak of his life works.
He didn’t really have any understanding on Sonny. On pg. 561, he tells us, “Sonny just moves back, inside himself, where he can’t be reached.” Sonny would just keep his thoughts and feelings to himself. This probably made it more difficult for people to read him, which is why his brother never understood him, or even tried to understand. But by the end of the story when he finally got to hear his brother play his music, and do what he always said he wanted to do, he finally understood everything.