Catcher In The Rye - Holden Caufield :: Catcher Rye Essays

Catcher In The Rye - Holden Caufield           Holden Caufield was a high school student at a boys honorary society by the name of Pency Prep.  He feels as though he had fought the world and lost, everyone is against him and that little can bring him joy.  He had lost his innocence, and saw himself as a catcher in the rye, trying to save children from his fate.         Holden is quite the eccentric individual.  I say this because of the incident with Sally Hayes where he proclaims his love for her and how they should move off together.  The reason this makes him an eccentric is, he hates her and in his own words Sally youre a pain in the ___  Holden Caufield has many bad qualities including one of his preferred pastimes getting rip-roaring drunk.  A good example of this is one of the many bar scenes when he gets quite drunk and asks the waiter to complement the singer.  This is a dispositio n of his drunkenness because the singer is awful or at least the thought so before he started drinking.  This is one among a plethora of bad habits the like smoking, cursing, and being extremely cynical (everyone is a phony).  Holden is by far not all bad, inside he is moral and generous.  There are very irradiate examples of these good qualities.  He had some moral sense because when bought the prostitute Sunny for a throw he could not go threw with it, so he paying(a) her anyway and sent her away from him.  Holden was charitable when he gave a considerably large donation of twenty dollars to the two nuns. This act uponion was nothing other than an act of pure kindness.         Holden Caufield has a foil or an opposite in the story, The Catcher in the Rye.  This person is his younger sister, Phoebe.  She has a positive outlook on life, speckle Holden hated it and thought he was doomed.  She was his ray of hope in life and she was the only thing that brought them true joy.  Phoebe was also the only person Holden knew who was not a phony about life and being happy (Sally Hayes).         Holden Caufeild seems to change and evolve throughout the book.