The Catcher In The Rye 4

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several school expulsions due to his poor achievement. In an attempt to deal with being expelled from private school he leaves school a few days prior to the end of the term, and goes to New York to ‘take a vacation’ before he returns to his parents inevitable wrath. He assumes that if he can run away from the problem, then maybe it will go away. As you would guess, Holden was wrong. His “trip” only helps worsen the situation.
Soon Holden begins to describe a developing nervous breakdown. He begins to experience things that didn’t usual occur to him. Holden began to have bouts of things such as unexplained depression, impulsive spending and generally odd, erratic behavior, prior to his mental collapse. These are only some of the things that occurred to push him over the edge. He doubted himself. For example he meet this beautiful, older “prostitute” and he could come to grips with why he only wanted to talk to her and not do ...

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