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Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Insight About Life and The World Around Him


The book Catcher in the Rye tells of Holden Caulfield's insight about life
and the world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about people and
leads the reader on a 5 day visit into his mind. Holden, throughout the book,
made other people feel inferior to his own. I can relate to this because
although I do not view people inferior to myself, I do judge others unequally.
Holden and I both have similar judgements of people from the way they act and
behave. We also share feelings about motivation as well as lack of it. After
reading this book, I came to the conclusion that Holden and I are much more
similar than I initially believed.

Holden portrayed others to be inferior to his own kind all throughout
the book. He made several references as to how people aren't as perfect as he
was. "The reason he [Stradlater] fixed himself up to look good was because he
was madly in love with himself."......

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