Holden Caulfield Influences

In the early 1950’s, “Catcher in the Rye,” was written by J. D. Salinger. The improper writing style was/wasn’t common during its era. The novel was told from a teenage boy named Holden Caulfield in a first person perspective. Holden was a trouble boy and goes against regular standards. Holden see as if the world is against him; which causes him to have a negative outlook. He comes from wealth which may have affected his attitude and personality but created his bad habits.

Since Holden see everything a little different, his attitudes towards things are too. Around girls he was always nice and super flirty. No matter the age he always gave a female attention. In chapter eight Holden was speaking to a fellow peer’s mother that he found attractive: …show more content…
He was quite depressing at times. In chapter fourteen he is super straight forward and says “Boy, I felt miserable. I felt so depressed, you can’t imagine”(110). Most of the time one could tell when he was feeling blue because he talked about his siblings, Allie and Phoebe.The neglect from Holden’s childhood affected his later emotions in life. This cause Holden to felt depressed and lonely. When he saw couples it instantly made him feel glum. Being alone seemed to be a very uncomfortable feeling to him. When Holden finally got help to control his emotions, he realized something: “I sort of miss everybody...Don’t ever tell anyone anything. If you do, you start missing …show more content…
Holden definitely takes it for granite because he came from a wealthy background. Since Holden’s parents did not know he left his school before christmas break, he was limited. He seemed to just blow money on pointless things. In chapter thirteen Holden paid for a striper: ‘...Five bucks a throw, fifteen bucks till noon.’ ‘Just a throw...’ ‘I’ll send a girl up in fifteen minutes’ (102). Holden also donated ten dollars to two random nuns he met on the bus. He spent a lot on hotels, transportation and his bad habits. Holden never thought about when he spent, his money he just would do it. Once he realizes a little more that he is unable to get money, he attempts to budget: “Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell” (126). Overall he just had careless acts with money but so did others. Holden mentioned his grandmother in which whom would send him birthday money numerous times a year. Prior to that he mentioned a big hot shot, Mr. Ossenburger, who donated to Pencey because he truly cared about children's education. Thus should people are careless at many time of their life with their