Existentialists are individuals who are willing to live their lives both within and without the system that frames their identity and that is exactly who Holden Caulfield is. ... Furthermore, despite Holden's reluctance to grow up, "The Catcher in the Rye- is still described as a bildungsroman. ... When Holden tries to rub out the graffiti at Phoebe's school in order to protect the minds of the innocent children he is becoming the catcher in the rye. ... This novel is not one of overt Existentialism like "The Childhood of a Leader-, I have no idea of Salinger's philosophical ori...

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In the novel Catcher in the Rye, by J.D Salinger is about a 17 year old boy called Holden Caulfield, and his development into adulthood. ... An example of how Holden exaggerates their intelligence is during near the start of the novel when Holden is writing an essay for Stradlater; Holden talks about how amazing his older brother Allie, He was two years younger than I was, but he was about fifty times as intelligent. ... This shows how Holden had very clearly exaggerated the intelligence of his brother, giving the image that he was some sort of extremely smart idol that Holden looked up to. ....

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