In the book “The Catcher in the Rye”, Holden Caulfield shows many signs of empathy and shows that he is out to help other people and to try and help himself. But, one of the things that is stopping him from helping people is that he lies alot. Holden Caulfield suffers from depression but yet he keeps it to himself. In the book, I think that Holden is a great rescuer, but fails to rescue himself because Holden focuses on other people's feelings. Another reason why I believe that Holden is a great rescuer is the way he acts towards his little sister Phoebe. He protects her and cares for her as much as possible. Holden is a great rescuer is because he respects other people's feelings. As we see in Chapter 13, Holden was having a good night out, saying that he was twenty two. A man offered to send a girl up to his room. When the girl had arrived at his room Holden was planning on having sexual intercorse with the girl but had decided that he just wanted to talk when the girl was in such a hurry to get it over with. Holden had asked “ What’s your name?” (Salinger,105). A prostitute has never been asked their name before,…show more content… But, he is a liar but he knows what he did when he lied and he always puts other people before himself. Just in chapter 13 while Holden was with the prostitute and she asked him his age he had lied. “Hey, how old are you anyways?” Holden said with “Me? Twenty-Two” (Salinger, 105). Most people believe someone who lies all the time is only out to better himself and lie trying to look better. I personally don't like that statement because, Holden was trying to look cool, but if he wouldn’t have lied, then he would have never had that conversation with the prostitute and the story might have changed completely around. Also, the prostitute can only go to guys a certain age so he had to be that age or
