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Teenage Depression (Sadness, anxiety, or a feeling of hopelessness ("…
Teenage Depression
Sadness, anxiety, or a feeling of hopelessness
"What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probable would've done it it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd come over me as soon ass I landed" (Salinger 116-117)
His hallucination of seeing Allie when walking down the street. "Every time I'd get to the end of the block I'd make believe I was talking to my brother Allie. I'd say to him , 'Allie, don't let me disappear. Allie don't let me disappear. Allie don't let me disappear. Please, Allie.' (Salinger 218)
The frequent mention of the ducks, He wants to know whats going to happen to him now that he's been kicked out of school and as such he has nowhere to go, just like the ducks. "'Do you happen to know where they go in the wintertime, by any chance?" "Where who goes?" "The ducks"' (Salinger 91)
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Withdrawal from friends
Him picking a fight with Sally while on a date "You give me a royal pain in the ass, if you wan to know the truth." I know i shouldn't have said that, but she was depressing the hell out of me". - (Salinger 133)
Him trying to fight Stradlater "He said Holden if I letcha up, willya keep your mouth shout?
Yes. He got off me "Your'e a dirty stupid sonuvabitch of a moron" I said." (Salinger 44)
When Holden leaves the team equipment at the subway. " We'd gone in to New York that morning for this fencing meet with the McBurney School. Only we didn't have the meet. I left all the foils and equipment and stuff on the goddamn subway. The team ostracized me the whole way back on the train. It was pretty funny in a way." (Salinger 3)
Irresponsible behavior -- for example, forgetting obligations, being late for classes, skipping school
Breaking all the windows in the house after Allie died "they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage the night he died." (Salinger 44)
His lack of care in his school life "Apparently before he phoned me he'd just had a long, rather harrowing letter from your latest headmaster, to the effect that you were making absolutely no effort at all.Cutting classes. Coming unprepared to all your classes" (Salinger 205)
Wanting to smoke on a non-smoking train "She looked all around. "I don't believe this is a smoker, Rudolf," she said. Rudolf. That killed me.
"That's all right. We can smoke till they start screaming at us," I said. She took a cigarette off me, and I gave her a light." (Salinger 62-63)