What does it feel like to always be confused and second-guessing yourself? In Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye there is somebody who does know. This very same cloud of uncertainty haunts Holden Caulfield. Not only was it frustrating but his uncertainty takes over his life. If it wasn’t for the death of his brother, Allie, depression and uncertainty would not have been such a strong factor in Holden’s life. Holden wishes to …showed first 75 words of 2073 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2073 total…realizes what really needs to be done and how he will do whatever he can to make that happen. Holden is like many of us, and because of his realism: “Holden Caulfield has joined the gallery of great American characters that includes such names as Mellville’s Bartleby the Scrivener and Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown, Jame’s Daisy Miller and Fitzgerald’s Daisy Buchanan, Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Heminway’s Nick Adams.”(Randell 205)