Catcher in the Rye

Many people find that there dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield realizes this in J.D Salinger’s book The Catcher in the Rye. In The Catcher in the Rye, Houlden Caulfield believes in purely black and white concepts, with little to no grey area in between. He applies these beliefs to people he encounters while he travels. Each aquintance is considered to be a phony or pure and true. In The Catcher in the Rye, …

…of the novel Holden Starts to lose his mentalk need for the red hat and gives it to his little sister Phoebe. The turning point was the scene at the carrousel when Holden is soaking in the rain and he doesn’t have his hat on, and he doesn’t have a care in the world. Holden lets the world come down on him and he accepts it, he doesn’t try to protect himself.