The Mad Man

This blog will also be rambles about how I think Holden is crazy.

I want to start with what Holden says on page 133. He says, “I was starting to get as depressed as hell again.”

This blog is similar to the same topic as my last one. Once again, Holden shows his crazy side. He gets a grand idea to run away with a girl, Sally, who I do not even think he really knows. He gets so excited! I think it is because after leaving school, he has no life plan. I think he just needs to know how he is going to spend the rest of his life. After mentioning how much he hates school and everything wrong with it for him, I do not think he is ever going back. He is running out of money and I think he is starting to get nervous about how the rest of his life is going to go. That is why I think he came up with this “great” idea.

After Sally says no, in a nice manner, she mentions the faults in his plan. He will not hear it and just cuts her off to talk more about it. When she finally gets a word in, he says the line that I started with.

When Sally starts to object again, saying that “I can’t hear. One minute you scream at me and the next—,” She gets cut off again for more of Holden’s crazy thoughts. If I were Sally, I would probably be incredibly annoyed. I hate when people cut me off when I am talking. It is incredibly rude. I wonder if Holden realizes that, though.

After arguing that no one knows what the other one is talking about, Holden says that they each hate each other’s guts by that point (Salinger 133).

After making Sally cry and feeling genuinely sorry for her, Holden busted out laughing. After leaving her, he admits that he probably would not take her along to run away, anyways. But he claims that he meant it when he asked her, which confuses the hell out of me. After admitting that, he calls himself a mad man. I think he is right.

Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 2001. Print.