Antolini really make a pass at Holden? Why does Holden run away from Pencey? Does Holden have sex with Sunny, the prostitute? What happens to Holden after his date with Sally Hayes and his meeting with Carl Luce both end badly? What is the setting for The Catcher in the Rye? Does Holden have a mental illness? Why does Holden wear the red hunting hat?
How does Holden feel about Jane? Why is Holden obsessed with the ducks at the Central Park Lagoon? Where is Holden as he narrates the story? He is a very impassive adolescent, he does not want to get attached to anyone because of he trust issues. In The Sun Also Rises, the main characters display personalities that do not have these traits and hence deprive them of such a life. Cohn, Brett, and Jake are usually left joyless after meaningless activities such as drinking, which is a reflection of how they live their lives.
These characters also show lack of consistent beliefs and regard for consequences of poor decisions. They show are vulnerable to the many insecurity they face. Cohn, Brett, and Jake live meaningless lives, have a lack of steadfast morals, and experience a great deal of insecurity, and as a result, The Sun Also Rises becomes an excellent example of how to not live one's life through the study of the personalities of the main characters. Baba knows that Amir is not violent and he wishes that he would just stand up for himself.
To Amir this is a realization that he is a coward and his father notices it. One final opportunity to decide There are not many philosophers;and the practical man is not sorry there are so few, for he is proud of belonging, as he says, to a world of practice, not of mere theory. The disadvantage of the practical man's world is that it breaks down, and refuses to work, and then he finds out, at the cost of enormous distress and suffering, that he has been working on a theory all the time, but a wrong theory; and he wishes he had done a little more thinking before it was too late.
Gradually it is becoming plain to a world which has always scoffed at the philosophers that a society run on the lines of Polonius, every man being true to himself or to his own class, will not in the long run work, but will infallibly explode, with hideous ruin and combustion, into chaos, and make way for a society which shall be less selfish.
Thus the poor boy is left with a cluster of memories, some good but most bad. Yet because of these memories, Holden has developed the unique ability to speak candidly though not articulately about the people he meets.
Though he seems very skeptical about the world, he is really just bewildered. His vocabulary often makes him seem hard, but in fact he is a very weak-willed individual. Holden has no concept of pain, and often likes to see himself as a martyr for a worthy cause. He has enthusiasm but sees no purpose; he has responsibility but commands no respect; he has compassion but receives none back. McCourt is virtuous in a world fit for cheaters.
Of course he is uncertain of himself. McCourt overcomes his uncertainties only when he redefines success. Similarly, McCourt's writing excels by defying convention.
The ways in which people deal with these personal conflicts can differ as much as the people themselves. Some insist on ignoring the problem as long as possible, while some attack the problem to get it out of the way. Willy never really faced his problems in fact in stead of confronting them he just escapes into the past, whether intentionally or not, to those happier childhood times where problems were scarce.
Christopher doesn't try to understand people by himself, he will need to ask and if he still doesn't understand he will walk away. Holden has no problem at interpreting emotions but he hates people who hide them, "phoney people". An edited version of this short story later became the basis of several chapters in the middle-late section of The Catcher in the Rye dealing with Caulfield's date with Sally Hayes, during which he confesses his desire to run away with her, he meets Carl Luce for drinks, and he makes a drunken phone call to the Hayes home.
Unlike the similar sequence in the novel, Caulfield is on a Christmas break from school, and, in the story, the interlude with Sally is split into two occurrences.
Also, the meeting with Carl Luce is considerably briefer in the story than in the novel. It begins with Caulfield standing on a hill at "Pencey Prep" watching a football game below, and develops as Holden visits with his history teacher, Mr.
Spencer, for a talk about his expulsion from school and his future.
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