The world around us can be very strange at times. From space it resembles a nice round blueberry perfectly happy and content with itself without a care in the universe. But, if you take a closer look you will see poverty, famine, war, and peace all set atop one big huge chunk of liquid hot magma floating around, spinning endlessly in space. It could be said that the world is a very uncontrollable and unstable place. The word “Unstable” by definition means readily changing, lacking effective emotional control. In the book “The Catcher in the Rye” there is a boy named Holden Caulfield, who also lacks effective emotional control. The center of all this madness is in his mind. Holden is mentally unstable and unsuitable for a normal life because he is suicidal, a liar, and a hypocrite.First, Holden is mentally unstable because throughout the book he shown himself to be an extremely depressed and sad person on the verge of suicide. For example, “It made me so damn sad when I thought about it, their never going anywhere swanky for lunch or anything. I knew it wasn’t too important but it made me sad anyway.”(Pg. 114) Sadness comes so easily to Holden that something as joyful as two Nuns collecting money for a good cause that helps people depresses him. He is like a time bomb “tick” “tock" just waiting for the right situation to arise till he has a complete break down. In addition, “I thought probably I’d get pneumonia and die. I started picturing millions of jerks coming to my funeral and all.”(Pg. 154) Thinking about death in general is a very hard thing to do for most people but thinking about your own death and funeral is quite bizarre. Holden lacks the emotional skill of controlling his feelings; instead he blows his emotions out of proportion and takes it to the extreme. Finally, “ I’m glad the Atomic Bomb was invented. If thereR...
