Holden Caulfield Grief

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In the novel Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, there is a boy named Holden Caulfield who flunked out of school and spends the remainder of time before winter break in New York. Holden has to spend the remainder of his time alone with his thoughts before coming home to his parents. While in New York Holden would have to face all of his griefs and sorrows he has for people and for society. Holden faces struggles with his viewpoints on children, the loss of his one care, and the wrongs society has caused.
Holden Caulfield struggles accept his grief over the loss of children's innocence. Holden wants children to remain as they are and not proceed further in life as a phony. Holden won't accept that children will move on in life and lose their original innocence. He …show more content…

He struggles to find any place in the city where the Phonies haven't infected. To compensate for this Holden looks for his one true friend that's been there through thick and thin, God. He uses his conversations with god as a way to escape the ruin filled the city. With the city filled Holden has to embrace the phonies while beginning to come to terms with it see's phonies taking over schools. Holden see and swear written down on a wall and it makes him angry and the world and the way their shaping it. "I was sitting down, I saw something that drove me crazy. Somebody's written F U on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how Phoebe and all the other little kids would see it". He struggles to accept that society is changing and will never be perfect for him. Holden fears have come true with phonies spreading the younger generation. In order to cope, Holden does the one thing that makes him forget about all of his griefs seeing children smile. For Holden Caulfield, he grieves that change will occur in society and will never be like his dreams, but he always has one way to take him to his perfect

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