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He was never good at maintaining a strong relationship with someone and he always found a way to drive people away. From the beginning Holden’s personality and the way he treated people was a great component to why he was alienated.
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Since he does not fit within what society said was absolute, he feels left out due to his …show more content… Salinger expresses how alienation is a common theme through the protagonist Holden Caulfield. Furthermore, Holden is unique and sticks out by being, “.confined to his era, unable to connect the dots from those cliques to a larger society that might merit some rearrangement”(Whitfield). An overall factor of Holden’s choice to isolate himself from others is the genuine reasoning on why he feels alienated. by choice, sometimes because he cannot stand the company of others, sometimes because he becomes disappointed with their company, and sometimes because his actions seem calculated to drive others away”(53). On the contrary, Whissen claims that Holden forcefully alienates himself “. But in the same way, Sally abandoned him which Holden explains when he says, “She kept telling me to go away and leave her alone. Holden is an isolated teen who alienates himself from the outside world, …show more content… For instance at the end of his date with Sally, he leaves her alone and goes about his life as if nothing happened between them (Trowbridge). Since little is known about Salinger’s childhood, critics believe that he and Holden are one person (Wenke).
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The Catcher in the Rye is the representation of Salinger’s childhood and adolescence, which he claimed “.in a 1953 interview with Shirley Blahly… ‘his boyhood was very much the same as, and it was a great relief telling people about it”’(Wenke 123). Salinger pursued his dream of becoming a writer by graduating from Columbia University (“Catcher”). Jerome David Salinger was born on Janu(Wenke). Show More The theme of alienation is depicted through the main character Holden Caulfield, in the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.