Catcher in the Rye 13-19

   I think these chapters have made me depressed.
   I feel like in a way, everyone has an ideal world built for themselves in their mind, a world that isn't always like the real one. In chapters 13-19, I think Holden just so happened to realise that his ideal world isn't really real at all, and so he kinda becomes an alien in a way, an outcast. For example, I feel his adventure with Maurice and Sunny was a result of feeling like his ideal world could survive in the real world, but everything backfired big-time on him. Holden is really depressed, scared, and alone in this part of the book. Therefore, his view on the real world becomes even more negative, like how he starts to think that everyone his age and above is a phony and stupid.
   Religion, I feel, also had a big role in the reading, a role that I liked. Holden hates people who shove their religion down his throat (I don't blame him, it's freaking annoying) and is an Atheist. He also is a terrific liar. I find it funny that although he was fine with lying to a mother of a former peer who he could easily see again, yet is completely honest with some random nuns who chances are he won't ever run into again in his lifetime. I also think it helped that although Mrs. Morrow was a phony, the nuns didn't fit Holden's concept of organized religion, and hence he respected them in his own way.

   And Sally... poor Holden, the dear's on his way to an emotional breakdown for sure when it comes to love and romancing. Throughout the date Sally asks Holden to stop yelling or screaming, and he claims not to have been doing so, showing that he is unaware of his own agitation. Also, his attempt to convince a rich, shallow, spoiled, socialite girl like Sally to run away with him to wheretheheckistan just shows how far from reality his mind actually is. And being the phony moron she is, Sally says no and leaves after Holden informs her of her status of being, "A royal pain in the ass."    To conclude, Holden's life is pretty sucky right now. He's running away from his own problems, letting them build up, much like our national debt. No one cares about his feeling as long as he is normal, with the exception of Jane and Phoebe, making him feel unloved and alone. If he acts out, people get mad at him. It's a sad world after all...