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The Catcher In the Rye: First Person Narration is Critical

     In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the first person narration
is critical in helping the reader to know and understand the main character,
Holden Caulfield.  Holden, in his narration, relates a flashback of a
significant period of his life, three days and nights on his own in New York
City.  Through his narration, Holden discloses to the reader his innermost
thoughts and feelings. He thus provides the reader not only with information of
what occurred, but also how he felt about what happened.
     Holden's thoughts and ideas reveal many of his character traits.  One
late Saturday night, four days before the beginning of school vacation, Holden
is alone, bored and restless, wondering what to do.  He decides to leave Pencey,
his school, at once and travels to New York by train.  He decides that, once in
New York, he will stay in a cheap motel until Wednesday, when he is to return
home.  His plan shows the reader how very impetuous he is and how he acts on a
whim.  He is unrealistic, thinking that he has a foolproof plan, even though
the extent of his plans are to "take a room in a hotel.., and just take it easy
till Wednesday."
     Holden's excessive thoughts on death are not typical of most
adolescents.  His near obsession with death might come from having experienced
two deaths in his early life.  He constantly dwells on Allie, his brother's,
death.  From Holden's thoughts, it is obvious that he loves and misses Allie.
In order to hold on to his brother and to minimize the pain of his loss, Holden
brings Allie's baseball mitt along with him where ever he goes.  The mitt has
additional meaning and significance for Holden because Allie had written poetry,
which Holden reads, on the baseball mitt.  Holden's preoccupation with death
can be seen in his contemplation of a dead classmate, James Castle.  It tells
the reader something about Holden that he lends his turtleneck sweater to this
classmate, with whom he is not at all close.
     Holden's feelings about people reveal more of his po...

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