Catcher in the rye essay

Catcher in the Rye Essay
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#4 why do you think that Holden Caulfield has psychological problems? What may have caused them? Find evidence in thenovel
Mateo Jaramillo- Introduction
Holden Caulfield had psychological problems, considering that the novel started with him in the mental hospital and ended in the same place. There are manyreasons why I think that Holden Caulfield has psychological problems; I believe it is because he suffered from his younger brother’s death, saw a student in Pencey committing suicide, and failed most ofthe school.
Maria Alejandra Mendez-Body Paragraph 1
The first reason that might have caused Holden a psychological problem is, he had to suffer the death of his little brother Allie, who died bythe disease of leukemia. This event might have caused him a lot of shock and misery. The evidence for such assumption is when Holden broke the window in the garage. “He’s dead now. He got leukemiaand died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946.” “I was only thirteen, and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage.” (Page38)

JulianaRueda – Body Parragraph 2
The next reason why I think Holden has a psychological problem is when he was at Pencey School. There was a guy who Holden knew that had committed suicide by tossing his body.Holden had seen that directly by his own eyes, which is shocking in the eyes of a young child. This is the reason why I think he also had problem on it. “He was the one that finally picked up thatboy that jumped out the window I told you about, James Castle.” (page174)
Esteban Cruz/body paragraph 3
For the last, Pencey was the school that he had moved for the 4th time, because he was expelledfor lots of problem. However, he got expelled again for failing all the subjects except one. He decided to run away before his parents knew it. His parents didn’t know yet because the letter was...