Ordinary People Vs. The Catcher in the Rye

Ordinary People Vs. The Catcher in the Rye In this paper I intend to show how the loss of a brother can have the same effects on two different people like Holden Caulfield and Conrad Jarrett. Both of their lives are turned upside down after the difficult loss of a family member. In the book Ordinary People, Conrad Jarrett has a good life and loving family when his brother dies in a sailboating accident. Conrad …

…the help of their family members love and forgiveness. When they hit bottom, and though that all was lost their families helped them through their toughest times. I believe that because of their brothers’ deaths they thought they couldn’t depend on their families anymore; thinking of them only brought them pain and sorrow of past happenings. But as they developed into new people they realized that family is the tie that binds us all.