To What Extent Does Salinger Make You Sympathize With Holden Caulfield

To What Extent Does Salinger desex You Sympathize With Holden CaulfieldThe Catcher In The Rye By J.D.SalingerJ.D Salinger has made the primary(prenominal) character and narrator, HoldenCaulfield, very complex. He has many good qualities that help the subscriber to sympathize with him. However throughout the novel the readercomes to run into that Holdens behaviour around early(a) characters oftencontradicts the opinions he has expressed to t he reader. This turn oversus 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 out of life.You can see how immature he is because even though he is sixteen hestill made a snowball and seek to get on a coach-and-four without realizing thatthe bus driver would make him amaze it out.The snow was very good for packing. I didnt throw it at anything,Holden then com plains,But he wouldnt believe me. lot never believe you.This is a very childish thing to say, if he doesnt get his own way then Holden believes that its the separate persons fault. He never considers that the bus driver is expert doing his job or that eventually the snowball would melt on the bus creating more pretend for the bus driver who would probably have to sluttish it up. He instead immediately assumes that everyone is biased against him instead of maturely erect accepting that you have to follow the rules and you cant bonny farm 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 maturity date is filled with corrupt p... ...the windows on the station wagon.Stradlater seems to make these repressed emotions come up byinsulting Holden through his lack of respect for Jane and the hardwork Holden had just put into writing that essay for hi m.I think 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 handout 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 set aside his faults and doesnt judgeothers immediately by theirs.