To What Extent Does Salinger Make You Sympathize With Holden Caulfield

To What Extent Does Salinger crystallise You Sympathize With Holden CaulfieldThe Catcher In The Rye By J.D.SalingerJ.D Salinger has made the main character and narrator, HoldenCaulfield, very complex. He has many good qualities that help the indorser to sympathize with him. However throughout the novel the readercomes to realize that Holdens behaviour around new(prenominal)(a) characters oftencontradicts the opinions he has expressed to t he reader. This even upsus see that, at times, Holden is no better than the characters hedislikes. It makes him seem phoney. However his use of colloquiallanguage helps the reader to realize that Holden is still quite youngand has a childish and immature look of life.You can see how immature he is because even though he is sixteen hestill made a snowball and act to get on a hatful without realizing thatthe bus driver would make him launch it out.The snow was very good for packing. I didnt throw it at anything,Holden then complains,But he w ouldnt believe me. peck never believe you.This is a very childish thing to say, if he doesnt get his own way then Holden believes that its the other persons fault. He never considers that the bus driver is rightful(prenominal) doing his job or that eventually the snowball would melt on the bus creating more act as for the bus driver who would probably have to mop it up. He instead immediately assumes that everyone is biased against him instead of maturely bonnie accepting that you have to follow the rules and you cant clean give rise your own. Holden is disillusioned and sees everyone as being cynical and believes that everything is either black or white Holden Caulfield sees childhood as being ideal and he thinks matureness is filled with corrupt p... ...the windows on the station wagon.Stradlater seems to make these repressed emotions rise up byinsulting Holden through his lack of respect for Jane and the hardwork Holden had just put into writing that essay for him.I thin k that Salinger is in general successful in his attempt to make thereader sympathize with Holden. Although at the beginning of the bookHolden appears to be fake and uncaring towards several of the othercharacters, as the book progresses the reader is shown how he has beenthrough the tragic overtaking of his brother and suppresses any emotions hehad about him, and how Holden really wants to fit in with the Adultworld even if some of the things he is doing he disagrees with.Holden is just a normal person with flaws like anyone else, thedifference is that Holden can give his faults and doesnt judgeothers immediately by theirs.