Catcher In The Rye: Caulfield's Lifesytle Reflects Existentialism

Part I of Essay
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 ....

Part II of Essay
.... 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 which I can live or die." Holden stays true to this statement as he leads a life, not as a phony, but as himself, leading a solitar ....