Ordinary People Vs. The Catcher in the Rye In this paper I intend to show how the loss of a brother can have the same effects on two different people like Holden Caulfield and Conrad Jarrett. Both of their lives are turned upside down after the difficult loss of a family member. In the book Ordinary People, Conrad Jarrett has a good life and loving family when his brother dies in a sailboating accident. Conrad …showed first 75 words of 628 total…

…showed last 75 words of 628 total…the help of their family members love and forgiveness. When they hit bottom, and though that all was lost their families helped them through their toughest times. I believe that because of their brothers’ deaths they thought they couldn’t depend on their families anymore; thinking of them only brought them pain and sorrow of past happenings. But as they developed into new people they realized that family is the tie that binds us all.