Holden Caulfield Alienation Analysis

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Alienation Both Holden and Paul find it hard to communicate with others in their lives. As in Catcher in the Rye Holden faced many people and he found difficult to communicate with them. Paul also couldn’t communicate with others in the war. Since Holden and Paul couldn’t communicate well enough, they were depressed in their lives and they were isolated from their society.
Communicating is very difficult for Holden and Paul in their lives. In Holden’s journey, he faces many people such as, Ackley, Jane, and Sally and many more, when he couldn’t communicate well. Since Holden has poor communicating skills, he faces problems when he says something, which he really didn’t wanted to say. For Instance, he said to Sally,” You give me royal pain …show more content…
Especially Holden, he was isolated from everyone. At the beginning of Catcher of the Rye, Holden said that, “I was standing way the hell up on top of the Thomson Hill…,” (Salinger 5). Holden felt that he was left out from everyone. He stood on top of hill, because he wanted to be alienated from everyone. He thinks everyone is phony and helpless in this planet and he wanted to be alone, but he goes to the game after this. In Holden’s life, the red hunting hat play big part in Holden’s life. Whenever, Holden felt isolated and alienated, he wore the red hunting hat to protect himself from everyone he faced as a problem of his life. However, it did not work, because even though he wore the hat he felt lonely throughout the novel. When he decides to leave the Pency Prep School he said, “I put my red hunting hat on, and turned the peak around the back way I liked it, and yelled top of my lungs, sleep tight ya morons”, (Salinger 59). Holden decided to leave the school and isolate himself from his friends at school, classmates, and teachers. For Holden that hat was his non-living friend, the hat gave him courage and energy to survive from all of his problems he has faced, because whenever he wore the hat, he didn’t felt alone or depressed. Later in his journey to New York, after leaving the school, Holden thought, “It was so quiet and lonesome out… I kept wishing I could go home…”, (Salinger 75). Holden felt he was lonely and disconnected from his family. However, he couldn’t go home because his parents do not know that Holden is expelled from his school. This makes Holden frustrated and once again left out, because he couldn’t see his sister, Pheobe. Paul was also alienated like Holden was, except difference is that, Paul was lonely in the war. Everyone was alone in the war, “We were all at terribly alone; and alone we must see it through”, (Remarque 12). Paul expresses his feelings that he is
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