Blog Post on Catcher in the Rye

I recently read Catcher In the Rye  and one thing I want to talk about is Holden, the main character's personality. First off, Catcher In The Rye is about a boy Holden, who just got kicked out of boarding school, and when he travels to NYC and the crazy things that happen to him in the few days he is there.
I also wanted to say how this book was pretty unusual because it only took place for about three days, and was quite a long time. Almost every minute was described and you got to know Holden very well. Like I said before, Holden had a very odd personality.  Unlike most books where the main character is a hero and is usually good-natured and honest, Holden is almost the opposite. Holden often described himself as a "yellow-bellied coward" and he did not seem like he cared that much about himself. The way he described everyone in the book made him see better than he actually is. He loved his sister and his late brother, and often spent a while describing people him that he barely knew. Other than that, he was quite rude, and he smoked a lot. He would just meet somebody and already judge the person and have a whole set opinion about them. He hated more people than he liked, and in my opinion he didn't seem to like the world in general. He called people "lousy" and "phonies" just because something that person had done once to upset him. I feel like Holden felt too trapped in the world and was mad at some people, but he took it out on everybody.
Holden has had a pretty crappy life, he talks about how he was kicked out of so many schools and how many jerks and horrible people he has met. I think that Holden has spent so much time in the ugly side of the world he thinks everybody is going to behave like that. He is too quick to judge, because he himself has been judged too many times. This book was written in 1946 when a lot of new things were happening in the world, and I think Holden just couldn't grasp it all.