Catcher In The Rye Movie Analysis

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In the novel The Catcher in the Rye by: J.D. Salinger you hear the story of a boy named Holden, who attends Pencey prep in New York and takes seemingly random turns in his mind, actions, feelings, and just about everything. You will see Holden's struggle with his views and mis mind slowly shattering. While all this is going on you see some parts when Holden will think about something random that doesn't make sense. Holden hides something from his own mind, people around him and us by thinking and focusing on things he usually lets pass him on by.
During the beginning of the book Holden checks into a hotel and during all of this, all of a sudden he hides his own mind when he is alone. At this point holden just got out of the lavender room, …show more content…

When holden gets bored on Broadway he to a picture and doesn't like it but won't stop talking to it. “It was so putrid I couldn't take my eyes off it.”(page 138) holden goes on and on to describe every part of the movie that he doesn't like showing he is trying to distract himself. Later in his describe of the movie he keeps going on. “ The part that got me was, there was a lady sitting next to me that cried all through the goddam picture.”(page 139) Once Holden ran out of things to distract himself, he turned to the lady next to him who stood out for no reason other people had to have cried and maybe have been worse but holden had to keep his mind off of …show more content…

“His name was George or something-I don’t even remember-and he went to Andover. Big, big deal.”(page 127) holden has meet many people who are just like George and may act even snobbier but holden goes on about a man he doesn't know it's not something people do yet it seems to be all holden does. Further On in the chapter holden goes on about not only George but more people he doesn't know. “I even thought for a minute that he was going to get in the goddam cab with us when the show was over, because he walked about two blocks with us,”(page 128) Holden is hiding something that George reminds him of Some trait and the fact that Jane likes george makes holden mad but he doesn't want to tell himself so going as far as hating sally for a short time because what he may be hiding could be worse than anything we see it the

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