Essays on Catcher in The Rye

In the society we live in, it’s difficult for people to take responsibility and to accept the thing that they do, when they do bad things, it’s difficult to admit it. The film Rebel Without a Cause, directed by Nicholas Ray, highlights teenager Jim Stark...

Holden is at a difficult age where he feels stuck – not just in a spatial and emotional stage, but also in regards to time. He holds the past with high regard, thinking pleasantly back to the days where his brother Allie was alive and...

In J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in Rye, Holden Caulfield experience a chaotic weekend – filled with lust, alcohol, loneliness, and loathing– in New York after he is kicked out of his fourth school, Pencey Prep. While he’s tempted by the adult lifestyle, he is disgusted...

In J. D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden, a high schooler from New York narrates his action-packed few days after being “given the ax” by his old school. During this time, we see how Holden views himself and those around him with...

The book to be analyzed is The Catcher in The Rye by Jerome D. Salinger published in 1951. The story is centered on a teenager named Holden Caufield, whose own understanding of the society around him makes him live like an outsider. In The Catcher...

Holden, I don’t give a damn. As many may ask, “Why has The Catcher in the Rye sustained readership over decades after the novel was first published?”. This is due to the fact that Holden has “become an icon of the adolescent rebellion”. Holden’s character...