Holden Caulfield Grief

Stricken
Catcher in the rye is a novel by J.D. Salinger about boy named Holden Caulfield. Holden over the course of days He goes from completely unethical person to downright unbearable. He starts out at Pencey the school that he was currently frequenting until they gave him the axe. He then left Pencey”sleep tight, ya morons!” with about three days left of down time (he left Pencey early.). In those three days he frequently talks about his dead brother Allie and how he misses him, off the wall subjects, supposed friendships and sex talk. Because of Allies death Holden's grief has made him became a loner who is as immature as a thirteen year old and needs to say goodbye.
Holden is a loner a person who shuns people not a people person whatever

When Allie died Holden was thirteen years old. “I’m seventeen now sixteen then and I still sometimes act like I’m thirteen” Holden fears that if he grew up that he would forget Allie and become a phony adult. In is grief Holden wants to become the catcher in the rye to keep kids from falling from grace and innocence so he too doesn't have to grow up. “I’ll catch them as they fall off the cliff.” Holden’s immaturity is a sign of his grief for Allie. When Holden heard that Allie died he stupidly punched out all of his garage windows and overnight grew half a head of gray hair. Isn’t that just like a thirteen year old to act out on impulse their emotions? Isn’t that what Holden did when he left Pencey he seemed to be destroyed when he left there with three days of down time. In those three days Holden showed us how far he had really gone into his grief and immaturity. Over the course of those three days Holden is constantly saying “I felt so sad that I wanted to die” constantly lying to himself and others hiring prostitutes and saying I love yous, making plans to go away, seeing museums, sneaking into houses being petted by a perverted teachers and unknowingly convincing his sister to come with him on some of his