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Catcher In The Rye - School Essays

Catcher In The Rye

The book Holden expresses many issues that get to him personally. One of the issues deal's with his sexuality. Holden, is very homophobic, thinks a lot of guys he meets in the story are "flitty." Holden also shares with us that he doesn't like his sex life, he even goes as far as getting a hooker but he backs (out of course!) In Holden's story he goes trough a very big change. He deal's with his loss of innocence's and the strange situations he gets into.
Holden's friend named Luce knew everybody and always had a woman. Holden never understood this because he always thought old Luce was a flitty guy. "I used to think he was a flit himself he was always doing that sort of stuff" (Salinger ...

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petting his head! This freaked Holden out. " I wondered if I was wrong about Mr. Antolini making a flitty pass at me " (194).
Holden met a friend who always kept her kings in the back row, what he loves about her. Jane to Holden she was a Goddess! It seemed like every guy wanted her. Stradlater wanted Jane and Holden hated it. He got so pissed off when he found out that the two of them went and sat some where a little too comfortable for Holden's liking! " Give her the time in Ed Banky's goddam car!" (43). Then it really got to Holden when Stradlater showed interest in Jane "it just drove me crazy to think of her and Stradlater parked some where" (48). He was just pissed that he wasn't the one on the double date with Jane because that was Holden's girl.
Last subject with Holden's personal life is his most private but not so private life! Holden expresses throughout the book that his "sex life sucks." When he was talking to his friend Luce about his sex life because his sex life ...

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Added: 3/21/2005 02:06:02 AM
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