To What Extent Does Salinger Make You Sympathize With Holden Caulfield

To What Extent Does Salinger Make You Sympathize With Holden CaulfieldThe Catcher In The rye By J.D.SalingerJ.D Salinger has made the main character and narrator, HoldenCaulfield, very complex. He has many good qualities that help the indorser to sympathize with him. However throughout the novel the readercomes to realize that Holdens behaviour around other characters oftencontradicts the opinions he has expressed to t he reader. This makesus see that, at times, Holden is no break than the characters hedislikes. It makes him seem phoney. However his use of colloquiallanguage helps the reader to realize that Holden is still quite youngand has a childish and immature moot of life.You can see how immature he is because point though he is sixteen hestill made a sweet sand verbena and tried to scramble on a bus without realizing thatthe bus driver would make him throw it out.The snow was very good for packing. I didnt throw it at anything,Holden hence complains,But he wouldnt belie ve me. People never believe you.This is a very childish thing to say, if he doesnt get his proclaim way then Holden believes that its the other persons fault. He never considers that the bus driver is just doing his job or that eventually the snowball would melt on the bus creating more work for the bus driver who would probably have to clean it up. He kinda immediately assumes that everyone is biased against him instead of maturely just accepting that you have to follow the rules and you cant just create your own. Holden is disillusioned and sees everyone as being cynical and believes that everything is either shadowy or white Holden Caulfield sees childhood as being ideal and he thinks adulthood is filled with corrupt p... ...the windows on the station wagon.Stradlater seems to make these repressed emotions rise byinsulting Holden through his lack of respect for Jane and the hardwork Holden had just put into writing that essay for him.I think that Salinger is mainly flourish ing in his attempt to make thereader sympathize with Holden. Although at the beginning of the passwordHolden appears to be fake and uncaring towards several of the othercharacters, as the book progresses the reader is shown how he has beenthrough the tragic loss of his brother and suppresses any emotions hehad about him, and how Holden really wants to fit in with the Adultworld even if some of the things he is doing he disagrees with.Holden is just a normal person with flaws like anyone else, thedifference is that Holden can admit his faults and doesnt judgeothers immediately by theirs.