Holden Caulfield’s Look at Life

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His alienation is his way of self protection and depends on it to stay detached from the world. Holden becomes lost in trying to find his identity and mixed up in his values and ways. He cannot go back to his childhood, nor can he go forward to being an adult...
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He is stuck in the middle, feeling confused and lost. However, by the end of the story, Holden implies that he will find himself. He has hope for the future and when he watches the carousel at the end of the novel, he indicates acceptance of the adult world that he has been so condemning of...
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