Catcher_In_The_Rye

Catcher In The Rye Novel Paper: Character Sketch Holden Caulfield is the main character in the novel The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. Holden is the narrator of this story, which he lets the reader know everything about himself and everything he does. His lousy vocabulary sense of words makes him stand out and easy to remember. As the novel opens, Holden Caulfield stands poised on a hill separating him form the rest of his school at the annual football game. His position is a metaphor for his views on life. The phoniness of life disgusts him, and he longs to live in a world free of the hypocrisy he is seeing more and more of as he grows older. Holden has a goal for life. He never says so outright, but he wants to live in a beautiful and peaceful life. Right now though, he is having a difficult time dealing with the world around him. He is a 17 year old boy attending a wealthy school called Pency Prep. He has just been expelled for academic failure, although he is intelligent and sensitive. Holden finds himself attracted to the weak and catcher, rye, holden, just, himself, about, novel, life, know, because, always, tells, reader, phoebe, out, never, everything, character, around, anything, yellow, world, think, talking, something, sister, shows, shown, school, says, right, really, people, park, one, old