Catcher in the Rye-Comparative
... also does inappropriate things like swearing. This also shows his immaturity because he doesn’t know when to behave properly, like when he comes back to his house to talk to Phoebe and he keeps on swearing even when she asks him not to. I, on the other hand, try to respect people by not swearing, at least when I am in a public place or at a friend or relative’s house. Holden cannot find a mature way to interact with people his own age but he does relate to Phoebe (his little sister) very well. I think is because he thinks at a childlike level, whereas I can interact with people on many different levels. Holden’s immaturity probably attributes to the way he sees people. He always judges people and puts them into categories before he even meets them. He doesn’t realize that he should get to know somebody before he judges them, which is what I try to do. I never judge a person by their looks or the people they hang around with, unlike Holden. For example Holden goes to a sandwich bar he sees two nuns with cheep suitcases and he starts talking about how he “could get to hate somebody, just looking at them, if they have cheap suitcases with them.”(p.108). One of the key points that Holden tries to make in the novel is that there are so many “phonies” in the world, which is something I do not agree with. I do agree, however, that a lot of people try to look or dress a certain way, but I do not think that makes them phonies. To me a phony is someone who changes everything they are to be a certain way, but Holden seems to see it differently. Most of the people Holden considers phonies are people he hasn’t even met yet. For instance he called everybody at the theater that him and Sally Hayes went to phonies.(p.126). Most of the reason that I think Holden calls everybody phonies is because he is one himself, but he doesn’t want to admit it. Holden seems to be very insecure about himself and he worries about w...