Holden's View

Once again, Holden’s view on things never ceases to amaze me. I am always so interested in what he has to say when he rambles on about nothing. He always speaks his mind, well, at least through his head, and he just keeps thinking. A lot of people get annoying when they ramble on, but Holden just gets more interesting in my opinion, at least.

For example, when he went out to dinner, he noticed everyone around him. He talked about a bunch of different things going around him. Most people would seem very boring doing this, but he was very interesting. He kept it entertaining. It amazed me how I could care so much about these fake characters being only a couple sentences long in a fictional story (Salinger 87).

For example, when he was eavesdropping on a couple’s conversation sitting next to him. He rambled on about how disgusted he was with their relationship. The man in the relationship was talking about something horrible (committing suicide) while he was messing around with the girl under the table. Not only is that bad enough, but she was begging him to stop, and he would not. Holden said, “Imagine giving somebody a feel and telling them about a guy committing suicide at the same time! They killed me.” I completely agreed with him.

In another incident, he talked about how he “was surrounded by jerks” (Salinger 85). He called the couple next to him “funny looking.” He talked about how he was bored so he eavesdropped. He had no shame in it! He did not care what other people thought; I was amazed when I read that. While discussing how boring the boy was being, he gave his own opinions.

He thought about how everyone was horrible around him and jerks. Sometimes that makes him sound jerky, being that he is basically saying that he is above everyone else and far more interesting than them. It kind of works for him, though. Usually I would find someone like him stuck up, but I tend to just find Holden interesting.