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

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." (pg. 27) Holden had an......

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