Literary+Elements

Foreshadowing, Metaphors Imagery, Symbolism Irony, Tone, Point of View Conflict, Theme
 * Possibly the largest use of a metaphor in Catcher in the Rye is when Holden inquires about the ducks in central park, “do you know where the ducks go in the winter?” (Salinger 81) which shows that he is also concerned with where he is going becasue he does not want to face his parents.
 * The entire book foreshadows Holden’s [|mental breakdown] in the end. He doesn’t trust anyone, he calls everyone a phony and he complains about everything.
 * Foreshadowing also plays another role in chapter one when Holden says  “ I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy.” This foreshadows where Holden is as he tells his story and that is in the mental institution. This link is to show what it was like in a [|mental hospital] and what might contribute to his growing negative outlook on life.
 * Another metaphor for why Holden is crazy is when he makes his date with Sally he instantaneously wants to marry her.
 * When Holden asks the cab driver where the [|ducks] go in the winter it symbolizes he dislikes change in his life. [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Bucephala-albeola-010.jpg/250px-Bucephala-albeola-010.jpg]]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden’s red hunting cap in the story represents him as an individual and is against conformity [[image:http://www.chuckhawks.com/plaid_hunting_cap.jpg]]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holdens age is a symbol that he is right in between the age of [|childhood and adulthood]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Actors in this book represent the people who Holden thinks are phonies. they are people who act like other people
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Point of View is first person and the narrator is <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Holden] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">He describes what he sees and experiences throughout the book. He comments on people with his own thoughts calling almost everybody “phony”
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden has a variety of different tones throughout the book. One of these <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">tones <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">would be bitterness and he uses colloquial style.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another tone in this novel is the tone of Holden because he is the one telling the story.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.shmoop.com/catcher-in-the-rye/tone.html__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some irony in this book is Holdens hate for religion and God. He expresses that he calls other people phonies when maybe he is the one that is a phony.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">But later in the book he explains how he admires Jesus.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">More [|irony]in this novel is that Holden calling everybody phonies is that maybe he is the one that is a phony and doesn’t realize it.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://zitin.wikispaces.com/file/view/catcher2.html__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The biggest conflict in the story is Holden vs. himself, because he is angry at the world.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden defeated himself, in the sense that he convinced his own mind that everyone else was crazy.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden vs. the world, because Holden thinks there is something wrong about everyone, he finds faults in each of them. He can not see that he is the problem.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The theme of this novel are the loss of innocence that Holden feels, he thinks adults are corrupted.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Holden rebelling society is a theme, because he does not like people or the the things they do.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: times new roman; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Another theme is Holden’s mental issues and instability, he lost his brother at a young age, and he hates his parents as well. Holden is not normal, he cannot stand people and he can not stay in school.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_the_major_conflicts_in_the_catcher_in_the_rye__]
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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.damien-hs.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=961:the-catcher-in-the-rye-social-conflicts-in-the-1950s-compared-to-the-21st-century&catid=122:english-essays&Itemid=1491__]