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HOLDEN CAULFIELD - Coggle Diagram
HOLDEN CAULFIELD
Important Quotes
Theme of Childhood and Growing-Up: "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff."
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Theme of Adulthood: "And besides, even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over"
Theme of Suicide and Depression: "What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too."
Theme of Innocence: "He was making out like he was walking a very straight line, the way kids do, and the whole time he kept singing and humming. I got up closer so I could hear what he was singing. He was singing that song, “If a body catch a body coming through the rye.”
Characteristics
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Isolated and Lonely: Holden isolates himself from the society and this loneliness pushes him to make wrong choices.
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Judgemental and Critical: Holden has a opinion about everyone that he talks (mostly in a bad way), and judges them through their behaviours and attitudes. Mainly sees them as "phonies."
Important Relations
Phoebe Caulfield:Holden's little sister and One of the few people that Holden really liked. Holden loves to talk with her and he can talk about his feeling with her. Holden loves her innocence and also looks her as she needs protection.
Holden's Parents: Holden has a distanced and disconnected relation with her parents unlikely to normal families. He sees them as phonies.
Jane Gallagher: Even though we don't see Jane, in the novel we know so much think about her with the help of Holden's memories. Holden has an emotional feeling to her and loves to spend time with her. Because of her perspective to women he sees her as she needs protection.
Allie Caulfield: Holden's dead brother and probably the one of the main reason of Holden's unusual and bad behaviour and pessimistic perspective to the human and society. Holden really loves and cares about him. He enjoyed to spend time with him.
Physical Appearance:
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Partially gray-haired, and woefully skinny
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Already wrinkled, sneering and squinting,