Sunday, May 8, 2011
Adulthood.
There is a lot of question about what is more prominently displayed in Holden's personality, Childlike behavior or Adult-like behavior. I would say that he is more childlike than anything. Some examples to support my opinion are that he ran away from Pencey when the going got tough, he got jealous of his roommate when he went on a date with his best friend, and he calls people immature names, like moron. "You're a dirty stupid sonuvabitch or a moron"(p. 44). Later on in the book, he becomes more of an adult. Dancing and engaging in conversation with a stranger at an adult club isn't childlike at all. Holden isn't a child, but he doesn't always act like an adult. He is in the middle of the transition from a child into an adult. He is right in between, a teenager.
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I agree with you because i thought that he was mature because of the fact that he left but you interpreted that part in a different way saying that he is a child for leaving. i think that he does become more adult like as time passes on because of how he talks with women and how he acts.
ReplyDeleteI kind of have to agree with you Even. But either Holden has some mental problems, or he went through puberty way too late! He reminds me of a little kid that is always looking at what adults do and copying them, because he wants to be like them. But it just doesn't work out because he's not an adult, nor a child. He's a teenager, and needs to start acting like one! But he cant because he thinks everyone is too phony so he doesn't want to be like anyone else, so he just acts... stupid.
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