#Holden Caufield

[maryhanaae4]

holden caufield

[moosemop]

this book was boring as hell, it really was. you'd have hated it.

[snortoborto]

I'm like the coolest funniest loser in the world

[bookworksh]

Just finished the book! So good! This is how I imagine Holden Caufield

[mbharestuff]

god I love how near the end of Catcher in the Rye, the book leans a little meta and has Holden defend the aesthetic value of digressions in narrative. it wouldn't work if Holden hadn't spend the whole book so earnestly philosophizing, but it fits perfectly.

[dirtsoilmulch]

do you ever get so upset over a book.

[sansthespectrumdeux]

[heavensincarnate1111]

!!!!!!!!

Me: Have you read Catcher in the Rye?

Too many people: Lol yeah it sucks Holden is a whiny pissbaby

Me: Ah I see. What a unique and clever observation that I’ve never heard before

[maryhanaae4]

who up holdening their caufield

[sallytwo]

yessss hes a whiny annoying privileged white-collar nepo baby but also. his life sucks.

[barelyanartblog]

[snortoborto]

No way (THIS IS A HOLDEN CAULFIELD LOVE ACCOUNT!!!)

This is a Holden Caulfield hate account

[lessnearthesun]

One thing I do know with absolute certainty is that John Richard Papen read “The Catcher in the Rye” in like ninth grade and went “he’s just like me fr.” This explains so much about Richard

[twinstxrs]

now canon to the fantasy high universe: fetty wap, j.d. salinger, & both idris elba and ruth wilson in “luther”

[leafatlaw]

genuinely distraught at the idea that people dislike Catcher in the Rye. What do you mean you dislike Holden ? Yes he’s a whiney self righteous teenage boy, but like he’s just very blatantly depressed ??? He blames himself for his brothers death ?? He’s just a kid ??

Maybe it’s just cause everything Holden is saying and feeling connects so closely to my own experiences with depression and growing but he just feels like a deeply realistic kid. He makes stupid decisions and he spends the entire novel just trying to make a “meaningful connection” with someone. He feels entirely alone and as such obsesses over ideas and people that are ultimately meaningless but he attributes such value to them. And even more than that, the end of the novel is hopeful. He’s going to keep living for his little sister, he’s going to try again at another school. Just- even the title of the novel “catcher in the rye”- he wants to help people. He wants to save people from the reality of the world that hurts him so.