Karakteristik af Holden Caulfield i 'The Catcher in the Rye'

Holden Caulfield is the protagonist and the narrator of the novel “the catcher in the rye” He’s a sixteen-year-old boy, who lives in Pencey Prep in Agerstown, Pennsylvania.

He is a distraught kid, especially at school. He has gone to four different schools and has just been kicked out of pencey, his laziness and lack of interest in learning made him fail in all subjects he had, except English. It’s actually a bigger problem than he expresses because the way he’s talking about it is like that it’s not that big of a problem, but when we see all the consequences, it has daily. He has nowhere to go and has no friends he can crash at. He’s a very lonely guy, and it seems like he has no one to talk with. When he’s sitting in Ackley’s room, he says, “I mean not wait till Wednesday or anything. I just didn’t want to hang around anymore. It made me too sad and lonesome” – if you read through the lines, he says that he has no friends and he can’t even go one more day like this. I feel bad for Holden when he walks around by himself and thinks about who he’s going to call, and can’t find anyone to call, so he ends up trying to seduce a former stripper called Faith Cavendish over the phone, but that didn’t go as planned.