Since I have learned more about Salinger's personal life, I recognize a lot of Salinger's personality in Holden. According to Holden, Jane's boyfriend was conceited, but Jane insisted that he actually had an inferiority complex. He can be found making fun of "flits", in which he describes homosexuals as phonies in regard to gender. Salinger tried just too damn hard to make him 'universal', to the point where he becomes unrealistic. Like i'm surrounded by zombies. Blog Twitter BookTube Facebook Insta. Seriously, that is a classic novel. It brings to mind Camus, whose philosophy is interesting but nearly forgettable in the sense that it just offers so little to the average person. Un diecistelle, magnifico, stupendo, meraviglioso, grandioso, sublime, incredibile, eccellente, sorprendente, incantevole, mirabolante, indicibile, strabiliante, indescrivibile, prodigioso, sbalorditivo, ineffabile, portentoso, stupefacente, eccezionale, magico… Ma non splendido. He made headlines around the globe in June 2009, after filing a lawsuit against another writer for copyright infringement resulting from that writer's use of one of Salinger's characters from The Catcher in the Rye. Holden returns to Pencey where he lives in the Ossenburger Memorial Wing of the new dorms, reserved for juniors and seniors. Everything is all bullshit, as usual. Sitting here with you and talking and thinking about stuff…" Phoebe says to Holden, "Allie's dead-you always say that!
I'm not sure i even understand him anymore. "I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. It's pretty depressing. No one would approach the boy's mangled body until Mr. Antolini put his own coat over him. My life is going to change and the attitude expressed in that book is at the heart of that change. I will give it to anyone who can explain the plot of this book (or why there is no plot) and make me understand why the hell people think it's so amazing. I began to think that perhaps I'd come at it too young, so after my first year of college, I decided to re-read it, go at it with fresh eyes, and see if my opinion had changed. A boy who gets kicked out of school? As he leaves the library each day, feeling better for having taken solace in the books around him written by the great authors in history, does it do Chinaski any good? I couldn't remember if his name was Edmund or Edward. Bukowski has that cool postmodern cynicism about him. Sadist one who gets pleasure from inflicting physical or psychological pain on another or others. I should've at least made it for cocktails or something. There he has a terrible time, goes home, tries to run away, and doesn't.
Salinger kid is a great writer. Holden Caulfield is a mixed- up cynical teenager, getting kicked out of another prestigious school, Pencey Prep, in Pennsylvania, the irony is that this obviously intelligent, privileged, 16 year- old, is somehow flunking out, why? The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind. There are books that we love without knowing why.
Usually it's a very strong dislike, and generally, I give them a second chance. Page 14) In two pages, he uses that exact word in a sentence without thinking anything of it. This book ends with Holden coming back home. I feel like Holden needs to get his life together, and I would be his friend because I would be the person to help and mentor him. It's not too late for me to learn from you, to find some meaning in life. Mrs. Caulfield makes sure that Phoebe says her prayers at night. You would just end up talking to his butler or some snobbish person like that and asking if they would give the writer your message. The last time I read it was about a thousand years ago when I was just a kid. This is a beautiful book. To this day Salinger refuses any offers to have 'The Catcher' put on the big Hollywood screen. Boy, I really fouled that up.
Catcher in the rye touches on some of these questions. I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone and everyone who would like to read a story that could possibly change the way they view the world.
In my hand I hold $5. Because the movie is set during wartime, Holden thinks about his brother D. B. At first time it was for my school work and as you may imagine I hate the guts of the character but second reading of mine was completely different. Indeed, he finds the idea of joining the army unappealing not because he might have to put himself in danger, but because he would have to fraternize with people he thinks are inauthentic and shallow.
Sadly, no real action. David W. Moore, Deborah Short, Michael W. Smith. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning. "You sound a little on the young side. "
Nearly every thing's wrong with him. He is compassionate, intelligent and deeply emotional and yet is unable (or unwilling) to focus that energy on those steps that he sees as leading him away from his "happy memories of childhood" and closer to the "scary world of the adult. However, reading about an average day is no more interesting than living one. Things i didn't even realize i felt were right there on the page! You sound like a very attractive person.
Holden experiences the extremes of entering into adulthood and relates it in a way everyone, maybe especially, teenagers can understand. Also he has his baseball bat that he holds on to because is very special to him. You're a friend of who? " Those who follow baseball can't help noticing that this is how a catcher wears his cap (a connection to the novel's title). Cuando te crees que por fin lo has encontrado, te encuentras con que alguien ha escrito un joder en la pared… aunque dedicara uno a eso un millón de años, nunca sería capaz de borrar todos los joder del mundo. He notes that Mrs. Morrow is a beautiful woman with a good smile, and later mentions that she has a lot of charm and sex appeal. He is growing intellectually little by little throughout the whole book.
What is his criterion for a really good book? عنوان: ناتور دشت؛ نویسنده دیوید سالینجر؛ مترجم زهرا ذوالقدر؛ تهران، نشر گستر، 1389؛ در 254ص؛ شابک 9786005883145؛. Who would bother listening anyway. It's truly worth the read. Ossenburger is an alumnus who has made a fortune in the undertaking business. Holden takes a taxi and checks into the Edmont Hotel. Some people think it's a masterpiece: great approach of corruption, phoniness of people's characteristics which is reflected by the perspective of Holden Caulfield who feels and sees so much for his young age.
Then, on the next page, he describes his date with a girl, saying that they "horsed around" even though she didn't really want to, but inherently "had no other choice". Chain smoking with gusto and delight, drinking in bars, (dives) like a man, where people aren't too concerned about a customers age just the color of his dough, going to a Broadway play with a very accommodating girlfriend, attending the loathsome movies and seeing all those phonies, the actors, fighting with unsmiling cab drivers, the kid is having a good time, living like a grown-up, as long as the cash lasts. It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages. Instead, I found myself completely drawn into the rich, nuanced story of Holden Caulfield. There is literally nothing going on with the narrative, style, theme, characterization, it is just one rote cliché after another. Consult a dictionary to check your work. From Holden's red hunting hat, to Jane Gallagher's checker playing technique, Salinger wrapped up more than meets the eye into things you never would have dreamed.
Gives the lady of the night, five dollars just for talking, sends her away, good deeds are always rewarded, Maurice, comes back with Sunny for more money, a dispute arises, but they leave with an extra five, and a sock in the stomach of the poorer, but wiser Holden. He also says that Mr. Haas, the headmaster of Elkton Hills, is a phony even worse than Thurmer because he showed favoritism toward his students' parents. And i really am not sure i can handle that responsibility on top of everything else. Indeed, but after all, whatever. If I could give this book a zero, I would. Caulfield is so full of misplaced angst! It was all far too "phony" for him; and phony is his worst enemy. Oh, such angst, mark. I don't feel like me. Your book's been gathering dust on my shelf for the past two years and it'll stay that way. Non solo per quelli che non mi piace quando uno rimane in argomento sempre, troppo perché è bello quando uno va fuori tema. Here are my favorite quotes of the book: "I don't care if it's a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. Since he has already been expelled from Pencey Prep, Holden decides to leave the school a few days before his parents come to fetch him.
Checking into the Edmont Hotel in the "Big Apple", a rather shabby, rundown place, (I wouldn't recommend staying there) and then the elevator operator the sleazy Maurice, gets him a prostitute, Sunny, she's Holden's age and he kind of feels sorry for her. Can someone shut this kid up? Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. Maybe I'm still just an angst-ridden sonuvabitch, but this part kills me: "All the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she'd fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say anything or do anything. Holden believes that Mr. Antolini is making a sexual advance, so he leaves the apartment and spends the night at Grand Central Station. She was getting friendly as hell, all of a sudden. Think about all the paper people who never amount to writers/poets/artists waste in Art and English class.
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