Essay Archive - Catcher in the Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism
Catcher in the Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism
The Catcher in the Rye creates an existentialist out of Holden
Caulfield by giving him a strong personal opinion, a different sense of
view, and isolation. Holden's individuality and his different way of
thinking creates within him an Existentialist that refuses to accept
weakness but holds sympathy for the weak and vulnerable. The basis for
these beliefs lies within the most commonly identifiable theme of
existentialism, which states that the philosophy stresses the concrete
individual existence along with the....
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