Catcher In The Rye: Holdens Insight About Life And The World Around Him

Title	Catcher In The Rye: Holdens Insight About Life And The World Around Him
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Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Insight About Life and The World Around Him

Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Insight About Life and The World Around Him

     The book Catcher in the Rye tells of Holden Caulfield's insight about life
and the world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about people and
leads the reader on a 5 day visit into his mind.  Holden, throughout the book,
made other people feel inferior to his own. I can relate to this because
although I do not view people inferior to myself, I do judge others unequally.
Holden and I both have similar judgements of people from the way they act and
behave.  We also share feelings about motivation as well as lack of it. After
reading this book, I came to the conclusion that Holden and I are much more
similar than I initially believed.

     Holden portrayed others to be inferior to his own kind all throughout
the book.  He made several references as to how people aren't as perfect as he
was. "The reason he [Stradlater] fixed himself up to look good was because he
was madly in love with himself."  (pg. 27)  Holden had an inferiority complex.
He was afraid of not having any special talents or abilities and used other
methods to make him out to be a rough tough boy.  "Boy, I sat at that goddam bar
till around one o'clock or so, getting drunk as a bastard.  I could hardly see
straight." (pg. 150)  Holden tried all he could to fit in. He drank, cursed and
criticized life in general to make it seem he was very knowing of these habits.
I myself have found me doing this at times, also.  I, at times, feel the need to
fit in to a group and do things similar to what others do in order to gain
acceptance by them.  I smoked a cigar once with two friends of mine because they
kept going on and on about how great cigars were, but that was only once.
Holden and I both place people on levels other than our own for amount of
knowledge and likeness to ourselves.

     Holden used the term 'phonies' to describe more than a few people in
this book.  He used the term to be what a person is if they don't act naturally
and follow other people's manners and grace.  Holden didn't like phonies, he
thought of them as if they were trying to show off.  He didn't like it when they
showed off because it seemed so fake and unnatural every time they would do so.

     "At the end of the first act we went out with all
     the other jerks for a cigarette.  What a deal that
     was. You never saw so many phonies in all your life,
     everybody smoking their ears off and talking about
     the play so t...

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