holden caulfield lover

I have a physical emotional reaction to talking, thinking, and writing about The Catcher in the Rye. No book has ever impacted me as emotionally as Catcher, and if I think about it for more than a second, my heart grows heavy and my eyes tear up involuntarily. Obviously, my favorite book (the one tied most to my identity) is Dorian Gray, but Catcher is an incredibly close second because of how emotional I get over the poetry of Holden Caulfield's character. No other literary character has impacted me as heavily as Holden. Someone please come help this kid. Someone please pay him any attention at all in a way that doesn't blame him for wanting to leave everything behind. Someone please understand him and provide long-lasting support for him. He's been through so fucking much and the only person he trusts is his sister, whom he can't visit without the risk of confronting his parents. But he did everything to see her, even if it meant returning to "hell." He doesn't want her to end up like him, and it's fucking heartbreaking because of how much he hates himself. He's full of love and the world won't forgive him for it. Someone please love this child unconditionally and show him compassion for once in his goddamn life.

I love how Tumblr is basically the only social media where it's acceptable to like The Catcher In The Rye and Holden, while on other apps, people will call you a mysoginistic redpilled incel edgelord monster for it while you're just... there, in reality, a 16yo girl or a queer non-cis person with social anxiety and undiagnosed autism or/and BPD.

I absolutely hate it when people criticize a pre-teen or teenage character and, among their reasons for hating them, say they're immature or anything else that's VERY related to the fact that they're still developing. For example, Ralph from Lord of the Flies and Holden from The Catcher in the Rye. I mean, obviously Ralph wasn't going to be the best leader in the world because he was a 12-year-old kid bossing around 20 other kids, and Holden would obviously be that "annoying" because he didn't even have the chance to be a kid before he turned 16

I think what makes me the most sick about The Catcher in the Rye is, obviously Holden is a fictional character, so that means he's never going to age. All of the teens who grew up relating to Holden are one day going to be older than him. They'll just keep on getting older while Holden will perpetually be a seventeen year old who's scared of growing up. But he doesn't have to grow up, the reader does. You can come back and revisit him when you're older and he'll still be seventeen. But I think he'd enjoy the company all the same.

I dont think that people understand that Holden Caulfield is a normal, shaken, teenage boy. I feel like too many of us will say "no one understands him like I do" when just about the whole world does. He's nothing special, everyone above the age of 11 with some sense of self and awareness of how fake the world is can understand him on big levels, especially if you're considered different in some way.

"We need more complex and unlikable protagonists in novels!" You fucks couldnt even handle Holden Caulfield

really d.b. is the unspoken best character of catcher because if i landed on d-day and fought the germans through a whole world war and became rich and successful enough for one of my stories to be optioned for a movie and my little snot-nosed ne'er-do-well brother who was 13 when the war ended had the nerve to sneer at me for ~losing artistic integrity~ and ~prostituting myself to hollywood~ i'd have to kill him

Super underrated genre of character is "solitary mentally ill teenager with a complicated parental relationship and a kind heart who feels completely hopeless at all times and finds comfort in things that nobody understands because it's the only evidence they've seen of a loving world." It's my favorite actually.

so i just learned that Holden Caulfieds middle name is Morrissey😭😭😭😭😭😭😭son😭😭 do you know how joan of arc felt😭😭😭😭

another thing about holden caulfield is that you guys seriously cannot believe he’s actually 6 feet fucking tall. his ass is LYING literally every time he talks to someone they’re like “hello little teenage boy what are you doing out in the cold even!”. Exaggerating your height is the most 17 year old boy thing a 17 year old boy could ever do and if Holden is anything he is a 17 year old boy.

You know you're kind of supposed to parse out for yourself that holden is outwardly just some awkward miserable and polite child. Like all that "annoying" talk about his cynical worldview isnt visible, you got that right? Outwardly he writes essays for his roommate on a typewriter that isnt his because he lent his out and he's nauseous at the thought of this dudebro chad hurting his friend and he tells his sister to not ruin her life running after him and hates that people graffitied the word fuck in her school and is frightened by sex [tied to his heavily implied experience with CSA] and misses his dead brother and is soul crushingly lonely. Like if you couldnt see that difference that is your own shortcoming not your english teacher's and most certainly not J.D Salinger's.

really d.b. is the unspoken best character of catcher because if i landed on d-day and fought the germans through a whole world war and became rich and successful enough for one of my stories to be optioned for a movie and my little snot-nosed ne'er-do-well brother who was 13 when the war ended had the nerve to sneer at me for ~losing artistic integrity~ and ~prostituting myself to hollywood~ i'd have to kill him

thinking about how citr would have been way more controversial if holden was a girl. people already hated him for the wrong reasons (thinking he's whiny/immature/etc) but imagine if he was a girl? pitchforks.

i just finished rereading the catcher in the rye and i'm here to say that i'm the number one holden caulfield defender, i love him so so much ❤️‍🩹