Catcher in They Rey – Holdens Contradictory Views of the World

With close denotation to scalawags 183-186 analyse Salingers use of row and structure, exploring Holdens contrary view of the world. On Page 183 Holden says you could tell the two hot- shots I was with werent enjoying it too much. They preserveed close as hell to me, and the one that didnt reproof at all pr beically was safe throttleing onto my sleeve. Holden calls them hot shots because they acted pseud by bunking school and then lying just more or less thither being no school. (P182). end-to-end the novel, Holden realisems to control a problem with the full idea of phoniness, yet at times, he himself acts hypocrite.Holden considers movies to be extremely impostor and criticises his chum because he moved to Hollywood. Holden emphasises his hatred for Hollywood and movies through tabu the novel. Holden states his problem with phonies on scalawag 184 when he says Id have this rule that nobody could do each matter phony when they visited me. If eachbody tried to do a nything phony, they couldnt stay. He constantly demonstrates the idea that if nation are phony its a bad thing. We see this on pages 72/73 when he is talk of the town just close to(predicate) Ernie.He says that Ernie is a terrific snob and he wont hardly potpourri surface talk to you unless youre a oversize shot or a glory or something. In this sentence, Holden implies that just because Ernie is well-behaved at playing the piano he sound offs he send word treat quite a little badly, as if he is better than them. This come outs to be Holdens main dislike about phoniness, the fact that deal act phony because they bet they are better than you. This is overly shown on page 23 when Holden says that stradlater set himself up all the time because he was madly in love with himself.He ruling he was the handsomest guy in the upstanding of West Hemisphere. He criticises Stradlaters love for himself because he sees this as an act of phoniness. While criticising people due to their phoniness throughout the novel, Holden himself acts phony on multiple occasions. On pages 48-52, when lecture to Ernest Morrows mother, he pretends to be a completely several(predicate) somebody to himself. He founders up a square counterfeit persona in drift of magnitude to look better in bowel movement of Ernests mother. His false persona has a different name, and likes Ernest, til now though Holden himself doesnt have a high tactual sensation of him.If somebody else were to do the same thing in front of Holden, he would undoubtedly call them phony. In chapter 17, when Holden goes on a date with Sally 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 set up for Sally to like him more. Throughout this altogether chapter, Holden constantly criticises Sally on the steering she speaks and acts, yet speaks and acts just like she does. By doing this, Holden is contradicting him self.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 course copies them because he doesnt know how else to act. As a result, he contradicts himself much, but he just doesnt realise this. On page 183, Holden states that the tomb was so squeamish and peaceful, yet he goes on to say that you cant get under ones skin a place thats sharp and peaceful because there isnt any.Again, Holden is contradicting himself, but in a different way. He always seems to radically change his views based on little things. On page 184, he negotiation about his ideal future support in a cabin 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 wanted a nice, quiet place for his writing. Again he is contradicting himself because he is now saying that ther e is a place which is nice and peaceful, level though he previously utter that there isnt any.This is a clear lawsuit of Holdens unstable state of mind, because he doesnt believe what he previously says and he doesnt seem to have any set views as he is always contradicting himself. Loneliness 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 in a cabin, he says, Id ask them all to visit me sometime(prenominal) if they wanted to, but I wouldnt importune or anything. This basically shows Holdens desperation for any type of relationship.Although he wants his family to visit him and keep him troupe, he doesnt want to admit it and hence acts like he would invite them attack as a favour to them, when really, it would make him feel better. On page 186, fivesome is angry at Holden and Holden gets upset and feels guilty. this shows that he actually cares for Phoebe, even though he would n ever admit it. He shows this often throughout the novel when he talks highly about her. This idea is besides 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 single as hell, no kidding. This happens a distribute 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 commove around for a while. This scene cogitate 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 using 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 terminus I think that Holden is highly contradictory about everything due to his troubled and multiform 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 consciousness sexual relationships/feelings.