Delve in Questions.
Questions:
1.He’s a crazy, mad, angry all the time, he has no path in his life, he has some kind of A.D.D, he have had some situations that has affected him but we’ve to understand him, he doesn’t have an easy life. We see him as a normal teenager but with some difficulties, he is as everyone he wants to have sex, to get drunk and to do things without thinking.
He’s a disturbed boy and a very aggressive boy.
A.-“… and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all”( The catcher in the rye, page 38-39).
B.-“I broke all the windows in the garage”,( The catcher in the rye, page 39).
He wants sex, so he calls an escort:
C.-“… Is this Miss Faith Cavendish…”, ( The catcher in the rye, page 64).
He doesn’t figure out where he’s standing in the world, that’s normal for a boy of his age that has suffered a lot.
4. Is Holden mature or immature? Or both? How do you know?
We found Holden both mature and immature; we think that he has some characteristics that can make him a mature boy, even dough trough the reading he shows some aspects of being an immature guy who can’t be focused in anything important in life, specially this thing can make him look as a immature teenager, but before criticize him and his personality be have not to understand but to be empathic about his situation, and how he has reacted to it, if we just understand a small part of it be can begin to consider him mature.
On one side he is a mature teenager, with the same interest as a teenager; specially sex, as we can figure out when he calls Faith Cavendish, but also with this quote: “In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.” (The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 9)
He is not interested in school, and he is disrespectful to teachers: “He stopped reading and put my paper down. I was beginning to sort of hate him. Your essay, shall we say ends there… However you dropped me a little note, at the bottom of the page, “he said.
“I know I did, “I said it very fast because I wanted to stop him before he started reading that out loud. But you couldn’t stop him. He was hot as a firecracker.
“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules”
