How much do you find you sympathise with the character of Holden?

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JOHN SMITH 11S

How much do you find you sympathise with the character of Holden?

Holden Caulfield is a very strange yet unique character. I think that everybody has a certain aspect of Holden inside of them. Holden is the very quiet, loner, calm type. Not many people are like this but most have some of these factors hidden deep inside them. Some people need to be calm sometimes, some need to be alone. This is a point which makes Holden a character that is easily relatable to. Holden's personality is not exactly the model one however. On the contrary, Holden is what one does not want to become like. I think this because the feelings he feels in 'Catcher in the Rye' are feelings or situations that many of us have felt or been in and they are not pleasurable. Holden is an outsider, maybe even a person with a mental problem. Or so he appears from the outside. We the readers have had the benefit of actually being in Holden's shoes while reading this book. This benefit causes us to know Holden more than some of his best friends do.

We know how he thinks