FREE ESSAY ON CRITCAL ANALYSIS OF CATCHER IN THE RYE

CRITCAL ANALYSIS OF CATCHER IN THE RYE

10 Quotes and Responses from The Catcher in the Rye 
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is
where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied
and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel
like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
This statement actually caught my full attention. I like the way that he started this
book off. It gave me a sense that the book was going to be very interesting and real.
This is a very catchy statement that made me want to continue reading at my own willing
and not to just be continuing so I can finish this assignment. It shows that the narrator
is not going to start the book off by giving the reader boring details about his life.
Instead, he is going to skip all of the usual details and jump to the real stories about
his life that he finds and interesting, and that I also found very interesting.
"The more expensive the school is, the more crooks it has-I'm not kidding."
I agree with this statement because people tend to assume that if the school is very
expensive, then the crime rate will be lower. Although they think that way, they are
making the wrong assumption because they have crooks too. Not only do they have crooks,
but they also have high-class crooks. The only difference is that the crooks at more
expensive schools may get away with the crime because they have an advantage that crooks
in other schools do not have. They have money and they can use the money to bribe people
so their reputations are not messed up. 
"Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hotshots are, then it's a
game, all right-I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any
hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game."
Holden feels that in order for life to be a game one must be a hot-shot. He feels that if
people are not considered to be hot-shots, then those people are not participating in
this so-called game of life. If they are just regular ordinary people, then they are not
going through life as if it was a game. 
This time I have to disagree with Holden. I personally feel that life is a game that
everyone must learn to play whether they are hot-shots or not. I think that it is
actually easier for a hot-shot to play the game because he or she will usually have
followers or admirers and these admirers make it easy for the hot-shot to make a move in
this game.
"I guess he thought it was all right to do because it was only me that was in the room. I
didn't care, except that it's pretty disgusting to watch somebody pick their nose." 
Holden says that he did not care if the man was picking in his nose, but I think that he
would actually prefer that the man stop because it is very disgusting to watch somebody
pick their nose. Especially when they are holding a serious conversation because the
picking of the nose draws the listener's attention away from the conversation. 
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
I think that Holden is wrong because I'm actually the most terrific liar one has ever
seen in his or her life. Holden lies to people depending upon who they are and how they
approach him. He finds interest in lying to people because he finds their responses to
his lies quite amusing. I do not think he should have told the reader that he was such a
terrific liar. I think the reader would probably have figured that our for her or
himself. 
You don't always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl. 
This statement shows Holden's sensitive side. I think he wanted the readers to know that
he was not like a lot of other men out there who tend to think that the only way to get
to know a girl is to get sexy. Holden seems as if he would prefer to analyze girls
instead of having sexual intercourse with them. 
"Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
Money is not always a great thing to have. Either somebody has too much money and they
end up doing the wrong thing with it, or he or she does not have enough money and they
end up doing the wrong thing to get it. Which results in people feeling blue and
depressed no matter which way it goes.
"I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it?"
I was very happy when I got to this quote because people are always asking me what am I
going to do and I respond by asking them "how am I supposed to know, I haven't done it
yet?" Everybody thinks that I'm trying to get smart with them when I respond like that,
but I'm not. I thought that I was the only person who thought like that, but when Holden
asked the question then I smiled because I knew that there were other people before my
time that asked the same question and had a little sense in their heads. Not that people
who ask me what I'm going to do have no sense in their heads, it's just that I realize
that there are others who see it from the same perspective that I do.
"I was the only one left in the tomb then. I sort of liked it, in a way. It was so nice
an peaceful. Then all of a sudden, you'd never guess what I saw on the wall."
Being in the tomb may have given him a little peace because he was away from all the
drama. Although he did feel peaceful, it only lasted for a second because as soon as he
looked up he saw something written on the wall that he could not stand. This probably
proved to him that all good things must come to an end even if it's the littlest thing in
the world like being alone in peace. It also proved to him that he could never find a
real peaceful place. 
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
I think in this last statement he was realizing that after he had just finished telling
the readers about all these experiences and people, he was beginning to miss all of the
people in the story. 
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