Catcher In The Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism
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The Catcher in the Rye creates an existentialist out of Holden
Caulfield by giving him a strong personal opinion, a different sense of
view, and isolation. Holden's individuality and his different way of
thinking creates within him an Existentialist that refuses to accept
weakness but holds sympa ....
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.... such views in mind, Holden begins alone in the story, and he
stays as such throughout the entire story. He establishes concrete
individual existence as he abandons school and goes to live in New York by
himself. He understands that life must not be lived as a game, although he
agrees with Mr. Spencer in order not to sound inferior to him. A Danish
philosopher and existentialist, Soren Kierkegaard, once wrote, "I must find
a truth that is true for me… the idea for ....
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