Catcher Essays - Holden Caulfield, J. D. Salinger, Pencey Prep

Catcher In The Rye Problems I think Holden Caulfield's difficulties started when his brother died from leukaemia because on the night of his brother's death he smashed every window in the garage with his bare fist and said that he didn't really know what he was doing. From what I have read in the book so far this doesn't appear to have affected him in what he does. He is very quick to judge people and seems to hate nearly everyone he encounters but I don't think that this is related to the death of his little brother. One of his problems which I think may be related to the death of his little brother is that he is continuously getting expelled from schools which is how the book starts with him getting expelled from Pencey Prep. When he is leaving the school he yells out "So long, ya morons!" which I think is a dumb thing to say because someone may have been woken up by this and gone out to get him. Another thing, which I believe should be counted as a problem, is that he wrote a little message at the bottom of his exam to the teacher saying that he found his lectures interesting but didn't take much of it in. Something else that Holden did a lot of was lying which I believe is a problem. He lied to another student's Mum on a train about many things including what her son was like, why he was on the train and even his name. In another part of the book he lied about his age to a prostitute. He also lied about a few other things in the book.