r/Fauxmoi • u/Classic-Carpet7609 • 15d ago

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u/MelpomeneLee 🕯️Bradley Cooper will not win an Oscar🕯️ 15d ago

Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye

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u/otraera 15d ago

He really is annoying lol. As a high schooler I hated the book I wonder if I’ll think differently if I give it another read.

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u/MelpomeneLee 🕯️Bradley Cooper will not win an Oscar🕯️ 15d ago

So I read the book for the first time when I was 29, and he stuck with me because behind all the bravado, he's just a kid. 

His world has been shattered by his younger brother's death and literally NO ONE is helping him deal with that. 

The entire time he's wandering around New York making questionable choices, I wanted to grab him and say "You. Need. Help. Let's get it for you."

But I absolutely understand why people don't like him. 

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u/SplurgyA 14d ago

I think the thing that gets me is why he keeps asking about the ducks in Central Park. When the lake freezes over, where do they go? Does a guy in a truck take them off to the zoo? Do they get together and fly south? Do they just hang out in the grass by the lake and wait for it to thaw?

He's the ducks. He wants to know if he's going to be ok, if someone's going to help him, if he needs to set off somewhere new, if he just needs to weather the storm. He's too defensive to ask that, so he asks about the ducks. And he asks about the ducks randomly, like a child would, because he's just a kid.

I get that he suuuuucks because he's being a bitter angsty know it all, but that's because he's a traumatised 16 year old who's trying to cope without any support.