This thought isn't processed by normal people which portrays how mad Holden really is in the world he is taking part in. ... His thought process really takes a toll on his mental mindset, which is why he ultimately ends up getting psychoanalyzed and put into a sanatorium. ... Holden also really cares for his sister, Phoebe Caulfield, who is younger than Holden. Holden is madly obsessive about keeping her innocence and preventing her from experiencing adulthood. ... The actual poem is about a girl going through a field of rye naked, and encounters a boy with whom she loses her innocence t...

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Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, is merely the average teenager, although he seems to think about sex and women quite a lot for his age of sixteen. ... In conclusion Holden Caulfield is engrossed in sexual thought. ... After Holden had spent a good amount of time trying to persuade her to meet him, because he was "feeling pretty horny", the girl, Faith Cavendish, finally got him to register the answer of no into his brain. ... This can be supported when Holden runs into some nuns at a sandwich shop and they start talking about Romeo and Juliet, a timeless cla...

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The novel, The Catcher In The Rye, is about a young man named Holden, who narrates the story of a short period in his life. ... Holden has some thoughts about what he would like to do, but since he is only 16, he can't really do too much. ... He is popular with both girls and guys. But at the same time he refers to girls as being less than he or other guys. ... She watches out for Holden and by her actions, Phoebe shows that she really cares about him. ...

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Although Holden vows in the beginning that he won't talk about his adolescence, Salinger lets several of his disturbing occurrences slip through as Holden is reminiscing. ... Until the reader meets Phoebe, all of Holden's thoughts are bleak and troubling. ... As he waits for her, Holden confesses about his sexual experience (or lack there of). ... Instead of finding the girl sexy, he finds her to be depressing. ... It makes him wonder how a girl can be so young yet be so tainted (Kaplan 27-28). ...

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He was lazy and tried to appear as if he did not care about anything, but after he reveals his actual thoughts, it is clear that he sympathizes with those who may not be as fortunate and may not be as bright as he. It's very sad because just walking down the streets of New York, Holden finds a problem with just about anyone who he comes in contact with. ... In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden had a huge problem with girls. ... He lacked in the friend department and thought that a girl would solve lots of his problems. ... Although, because of girls the guys that he considered his friends te...

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Holden first started to call his brother but then he thought of his sitter Phoebe, then he whet on about her and how she wouldn't mind being woke up. ... Chirs Main The Catcher in the Rye is about a man named Holden Caulfield, who is narrating the story. ... Once in his room, he called a girl by the name of Faith Cavendish. ... Holden bought drinks and danced with the girls, although after the whole evening they ended up leaving him with the check, without so much as a thank you. Holden then went to the lobby of the hotel and for a while thought about Jane Gallagher and a summer t...

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Holden thinks about Phoebe many times during his time in New York City, and finally risks getting caught by his parents to sneak into their apartment and visit her. ... Phoebe is Holden's ten-year-old sister, a bright and articulate girl who sometimes talks to Holden as though she were older than he. ... Phoebe appears in person very late in the book, but she plays a central role in Holden's thoughts, and has much influence on what happens to him at the 2end of the novel. ... All of his thoughts up to those of his sister are dark and unsettling. ... Her name is a species ...

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What Holden later comes to understand is that he doesn't wants to have meaningless sex with some girl who is just as lost and confused as he is. ... Holden felt that all the prep schools were full of phonies who were all about school spirit, and it always depressed him. ... Holden was never happy at these schools, because Holden never got or went for what the schools were all about. ... The thing with Holden is that he could care less about the materialistic living of that lifestyle. ... The religious themes of the singing angles and all just drive him to even more depression he ...

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This is a passage from The Catcher in the Rye which is a novel by J.D Salinger about a teenage boy, Holden Caufield, who is moving towards a mental break down. The novel is about Holden's "Odyssey" through New York in search of his true self and acceptance from society. ... He rejects the world around him because of its "phoniness" and fantasizes about his own world. ... In chapter 10, he uses the name Jim Steele when he meets the three girls in the bar, and in chapter 13 he uses it again with the prostitute, Sunny. ... I thought in general, that this essay was a pretty good one. ...

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I'd only been in about two fights in my life, and I lost both of them. ... He fantasizes about being shot and seeks revenge. ... Holden sees Jane as a sensitive, imaginative girl who transcends the cruelty of life. ... For the simple fact the James Castle died in Holden's sweater symbolizes Holden's concern about protecting the innocence. ... While talking to Carl Luce, Holden wonders if he needs psychoanalysis because he has difficulty being intimate with a girl unless he really cares about here. ...

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At least Ackley knew that he had a problem, that he need to do something about his face; but Stradlater thought that he was a great guy. ... This is a good example of the phoniest that Holden will talk about all through book. ... Salinger had Holden look about of the window I think it was a big simile, of which I think about more in theme number 3, of the theme of the book. ... The next one I just thought about is the time Holden got a snow ball off the window cell. ... Holden first started to call his brother but then he thought of his sitter Phoebe, then he whet on about her and how she...

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Spencer, sick as he is, tries to lecture Holden about how his life is a game and how he should start caring about his future. ... Jane was a girl he spent a lot of time with two summers ago. ... He was going to go downstairs and say hello but he got nervous and stayed in his room, where he thought about he for about half an hour until Ackley walked in and took his mind off her. ... He talks about how she likes writing books about Hazel Wetherfield, a girl detective. ... He notices a very attractive girl sitting with a guy. ...

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Allie was Holden's younger brother by two years, but Holden thought had a lot of respect for him. ... He used to laugh so hard at something he thought of at the dinner table and he just about fell off his chair."... Holden encounters a man who wants more money for sending a girl up to his room and he becomes scared, and tries to act as intimidating as he can while refusing to pay. ... After the prostitute and her "boss" left, Holden thought of an alternate ending in which Holden was shot in the stomach by Maurice. ... What is good about Holden is that he hints that he realizes his fall...

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He is very vague about his childhood, however, because his parents are very touchy when it comes to personal information. ... He even thought about jumping out of the window but he did not because he did not want people crowding around his body. ... This shows that Holden is so obsessed with phoniness that he cannot even have a conversation without thinking about it. ... So he called another person who was not really a friend, but Holden thought they could have a "slightly intellectual conversation" (Salinger, 136). ... He tried to talk to Valencia (the singer at the bar), her piano player and...

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It was a place that Holden thought would always predominate and never change. ... You're a stupid chiseling moron, and in about two years you'll be one of those scraggy guys that come up to you on the street and ask for a dime for coffee- (103). ... At the hotel in New York, in Lavender room, he refers to the three girl he met as stupid when he said, " I tried to get them in a little intelligent conversation, but it was practically impossible. ... It tells you what the book is about. ... That is the only thought that does not make him feel depressed and his way of saving children...

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Salinger was all about a young man named Holden Caulfield. ... Holden learns the most valuable lessons about everyday life and wonders why he has to live the life he has. Holden had three siblings" back home that he thought of most of the time, two of which were older than he was. ... He would talk about her the most around people and brag about her. ... Whether it's about girls or school he always wanted a conversation with someone whom has had experience with those particular subjects. ...

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He often seeks refuge from old friends, attempting to forget about both his past and his future. ... His older brother, D.B. is thought of as some sort of guy that, according to Holden, "threw his life away" by giving his literary talents to Hollywood. ... Antolini who Holden later believes to be homosexual. ... She was a girl from his stay at the hospital after his suicide incident. ... For Holden, it was Pennsylvania and New York. ...

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Conrad's and Holden's thoughts and actions are influenced greatly by the deaths of their brothers, by their parents, and by the female figures in their lives. ... Holden does not feel guilty about his brother's death, but rather feels anger. ... He feels that this will make his parents feel better about his problems. ... The girls have one similar effect on the boys; Jeannine and Phoebe make the boys needed. ... The characters in the novels Ordinary People and The Catcher in the Rye change Holden's and Conrad's thoughts and actions dramatically. ...

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The reason I bring this character up is because a lot of this story has her involved in Holden's thoughts. ... The whole time this guy and girl are on their date Holden is going ballistic. ... He can't stand the thought of being at that school with those people anymore. ... He tells this woman all these lies about her son. ... He has scattered thought all throughout the book. ...

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Holden was a very hypocritical character in the book. Believing that all his thoughts and beliefs were true and every one that differed in opinion was an idiot. Feeling that he knew a lot about human nature, Holden discusses his thoughts on many people's actions and personalities. ... Coming Through The Rye by, Robert Burns was actually about meeting a girl and if he should kiss her if he happens to run into her. ... For if we think about we have all had a time in our lives when we have been lost or confused like Holden, in search of nothing more than stability and love. ...

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Holden hates Ernest but tells his mother ridiculous lies about her son. ... Spencer tries to convince Holden to think about his future. ... Holden then learns Stradlater is taking out Jane Gallagher, who is a girl Holden has feelings for.Stradlater exits, Ackley returns, the Holden eats dinner. ... Holden can think of nothing to write about so he writes about a baseball glove his brother Allie used to own. ... He should have told Stradlater that he should have thought about the essay before he had made a date with Jane. ...

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He has, after all, published no fiction since 1966, and he has steadfastly refused to talk or write about his life." ... Luce is, to say the least, sexually experienced, which later adds to the torment Holden feels about his own adolescent sexuality. ... The driver on the other hand sees this as an unimportant question and wonders why he is getting so worked up about it. ... This is why Holden sneaks home to see his little sister Phoebe, because he is worried about her. ... He reconsiders with the thought that, if he goes, no one will be there to take care of Phoebe and she will be forced to...

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In numerous chapters Holden is always thinking about or describing or talking about the female anatomy. ... Although he only talks to her, the actions and thoughts are very sexual, even still in today's culture. Many of these sexual phrases and content are not even necessary to give a good description of Holden, for example; when Holden is talking about visiting the museum almost every Saturday, there was always this female Indian sculpture without a top on. Holden talks for almost a paragraph about how "everyone got a good look" at the Indian's breasts, "even the girls." ... Anothe...

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He knows quite a bit about the study of speech. ... Holden shows no animosity about Dr. ... For example, Stradlater does not care about Holden's feelings for Jane Gallagher. After the two fight about her, Holden goes to Ackley's room to talk. ... I"m a good girl, I am" (27). ...

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Nobody even knows for sure how the girls feel about Stradlater because their opinions of him all come from himself. Nobody ever hears what people besides Holden and Ackley say about him because we never hear what they say. ... He asks Holden to borrow his hound's-tooth jacket and Holden lets him use it after a bit of thought. ... He thought he was the handsomest guy in the world." ... I got Bud Thaw's girl's roommate now." ...

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