Catcher in They Rey – Holdens Contradictory Views of the World

With close up reference to pages 183-186 analyse Salingers use of language and structure, exploring Holdens hostile view of the world. On Page 183 Holden says you could tell the two hot- torpedos I was with werent enjoying it too much. They stayed close as hell to me, and the one that didnt allow the cat forbidden of the bag at all practically was holding onto my sleeve. Holden calls them hot shots because they acted imposter by bunking school and then lying about there creation no school. (P182). Throughout the fresh, Holden absorbms to cast a problem with the whole bringing close together of phoniness, to date at cadences, he himself acts imitative.Holden considers movies to be extremely sham and criticises his br other because he moved to Hollywood. Holden emphasises his hatred for Hollywood and movies throughout the novel. Holden states his problem with phonies on page 184 when he says Id have this rule that nobody could do anything phony when they visited me. I f anybody tried to do anything phony, they couldnt stay. He constantly demonstrates the idea that if people are phony its a bad thing. We see this on pages 72/73 when he is talk of the town about Ernie.He says that Ernie is a terrific snob and he wont hardly nonetheless talk to you unless youre a big shot or a celebrity or something. In this sentence, Holden implies that incisively because Ernie is well(p) at playing the piano he turn overs he can address people badly, as if he is better than them. This take cares to be Holdens briny dis manage about phoniness, the fact that people act phony because they estimate they are better than you. This is also shown on page 23 when Holden says that stradlater frozen himself up all the time because he was madly in distinguish with himself.He thought he was the handsomest guy in the whole of West cerebral hemisphere. He criticises Stradlaters love for himself because he sees this as an act of phoniness. date criticising people col lectible to their phoniness throughout the novel, Holden himself acts phony on multiple occasions. On pages 48-52, when talking to Ernest Morrows mother, he pretends to be a completely contrasting person to himself. He makes up a whole false function in order to look better in front of Ernests mother. His false persona has a different name, and likes Ernest, even though Holden himself doesnt have a high opinion of him.If somebody else were to do the resembling thing in front of Holden, he would undoubtedly call them phony. In chapter 17, when Holden goes on a date with whirl Hayes, he speaks just as posh as Sally does. This is shown when he says swell to see you too. Again, Holden is putting on a false persona in order for Sally to like him more. Throughout this whole chapter, Holden constantly criticises Sally on the expressive style she speaks and acts, yet speaks and acts just like she does. By doing this, Holden is contradicting himself.He doesnt seem to realise that he is acting just as phony ads Sally is. Holden seems to act this way in front of most girls. I think he does this because he sees other guys acting the same way with girls and he naturally copies them because he doesnt know how else to act. As a result, he contradicts himself often, moreover he just doesnt realise this. On page 183, Holden states that the tomb was so nice and peaceful, yet he goes on to say that you cant find a dimension thats nice and peaceful because there isnt any.Again, Holden is contradicting himself, but in a different way. He always seems to radically pitch his views establish on little things. On page 184, he dialog about his ideal future living in a confine away from the world. When talking about how his family could visit him he says that he would let D. B. come and visit him for a while if he asked a nice, quiet place for his writing. Again he is contradicting himself because he is now verbalise that there is a place which is nice and peaceful, even th ough he previously stated that there isnt any.This is a clear example of Holdens explosive state of mind, because he doesnt remember what he previously says and he doesnt seem to have any set views as he is always contradicting himself. solitude is a key theme in the novel, and it is represented through Holdens contradictions. On page 184, when talking about his ideal future living alone(predicate) in a cabin, he says, Id ask them all to visit me onetime(prenominal) if they wanted to, but I wouldnt insist or anything. This basically shows Holdens hopelessness for any type of relationship.Although he wants his family to visit him and keep him company, he doesnt want to admit it and therefore acts like he would invite them round as a favour to them, when really, it would make him feel better. On page 186, quintette is angry at Holden and Holden gets upset and feels guilty. this shows that he actually cares for Phoebe, even though he would never admit it. He shows this often thr oughout the novel when he talks highly about her. This idea is also shown on pages 122-123. Holden is so desperate for company that he just contacts anyone he could think of in order to have company.Even though he criticises these people based on their phoniness, he still wants their company. This reoccurs on page 134. Holden spends all that time criticising Luce, yet ends up practically begging him to stay with him because he is lonely. He even admits his loneliness to Luce . Im lonesome as hell, no kidding. This happens a kitty during the novel. In chapter 10, Holden meets triplet girls, who he refers to as pretty ugly and the three witches. He spends the majority of the chapter pretending to like them in order to have company, even though he constantly criticises them to us.He constantly complains to us about things that they do, yet at the end of the chapter on page 67 when they say they had to leave, he says that he tried to get them to stick around for a while. This shooter links together the last two points that I mentioned. Holden doesnt actually like the girls, yet he pretends he does so that he can have company. He also creates this false persona that is interested in the three girls. In order to do this, he had to use techniques that he has learnt from other people, even though he describes these other people as phony.Because he so socially unable, he takes techniques from others. What he doesnt realise is that by development these techniques, he himself is being a phony. You could say that deep down he knows that he does this a lot, yet he doesnt want to admit it to himself. In conclusion I think that Holden is highly contradictory about everything due to his troubled and confused state of mind. I think this is caused by the changes they are taking place in his life, such as getting kicked out of schools a lot and not understanding sexual relationships/feelings.