The Catcher in the Rye: Holden Caulfield

Holden Caulfield, the main character of The Catcher in the Rye is a very strange person. Holden has many ideas about a lot of different subjects.

Holden is somewhat of a troubled teenage boy. He has been kicked out of four schools, and nothing really seems to interest him. The only things Holden seems to care about are his sister Phoebe, his brother Allie, and his friend Jane.

Phoebe is his little sister who "really knocks him out". In other words, she makes him laugh a lot. Phoebe is a few years younger than Holden, but she is very smart. Holden tells her a lot of his secrets, and he really enjoys her company.

Allie is Holden's little brother. Allie died a year or so before the book takes place. Allie was also a very smart younger sibling. One of Holden's fondest memories of Allie is Allie's baseball glove. Allie played in the outfield, so he wrote a bunch of poems all over his glove so that he would have something to do.

Jane is Holden's next door neighbor. He would spend summers with her, and he really respects her. He obviously has a huge crush on her. In the novel, Holden always tells the story of how he and Jane would play checkers, and she would always leave her kings in the back row. He thought that was funny.

Holden is very skeptical about people. He likes to call people phony. He calls almost everyone phony. Holden puts people in categories, and he does not try to get to know them to see who they really are. The way he acts towards most people shows that he is pretty immature. It is easy to toss someone aside, but it takes a mature person to not judge and to just get to know someone.

Holden is also very interested in sex even though he is a virgin. He is always trying to have sex or make out with someone. Although Holden is always trying to have sex with strangers, he gets very mad when his friend Jane goes on a date with his roommate because she does not know him.