A Readers Guide To The Catcher In The Rye :: essays research papers

                         A Readers Guide to The Catcher in the Rye     Though J.D. Salingers book, The Catcher in the Rye, has served as a major controversial element of fiction within our reading society, it does, in fact, contain another side to the story. Holden Caulfield, who is sixteen, has practiced flunked out of another embarkation school that his parents submit sent him to. It seems that he has become very experience in failing courses. The only classes that he manages to pass are the ones that assume the same teaching material that he has previously learned in another school. During our experience with Holden at Pencey, which is the boarding school he before long resides at, we learn of his great negativity that he has against most of the members of this institution. Holden can disclose something that just seems to annoy him in every situation tha t he encounters and in every place that he may be. One of the most use words within the story is "Phony." Holden often seems to describe most others as beingness "Phony." The words they say, the ways they act, and their personalities towards others often appear to him as being "Phony." During almost every scene that takes place within the story, the reader leave behind encounter, numerously, Holdens dis worry for the surroundings and the people. This is what makes up the negative aura that surrounds the book.Holden spends several(prenominal) days wandering around New York City before he decides to return home. He is supposed to arrive home on Wednesday however, he decided to leave the school early so he could have a few days to relax and prepare for his homecoming. He is panicked at what his family will say to him failing yet another boarding school. While his father wanted him to attend Yale, he just does not seem to have what it takes to be a serious stud ent. There is something that just holds Holden back from achieving what he wants from life. While he is in New York, he has several meetings with old acquaintances. These are previous friends of his that he has always seemed to like very well. However, within some of these confrontations, we learn of some of the negativitys that seems to cross his mind. After the first few chapters, the reader can be tempted to stop reading because of this mood. The reader never really learns of the experiences that Holden has after he returns home.