Bianca Johnson- Illustrator

This is a picture of a mental institution. Holden was narrating from a psychiatric facilitary .

Bianca Johnson- Illustrator

This represents the women in that time period . Women were not treated as well as the women now in modern times.

Bianca Johnson- Illustrator

This represents the Pennsylvania boarding school that Holden went to. Holden is being expelled from the school and these are his last days at the school.

Illustrator

This is what I think of when Holden talked about his time at the hotel with a prostitute, in New York at a hotel he went to nothing happened but he just wanted to get away.

Moses Allred- researcher

Holdens brother Allie died of leukemia, this destroyed Holden. It made the world seem like a cruel place, and it put him in a very dark place. Cancer in the 1940's setting was a death sentence, the patients were given brutal treatments(if the disease was even noticed). Cancer was not as easy to detect, and there was not nearly as much effort given to assisting as now. The helplessness of the situation drove Holden to the extremes.

Moses Allred- researcher

Holden consistently has issues with a control of anger, inevitably leading to violence. Especially around the 1950's organized crime was picking up, overall that would cause a general increase in violence. Crime was not always so rapid, it only increased over the fifty years. It will only continue to gradually enhance though. His viewing of destructive ways brought him to fear, until he realized that everyone has to struggle through worldly issues.

Moses Allred- researcher

During the time period that the novel takes place in, respect towards women is at a very low level. It reflects the characters interactions, to when he is dealing with a girlfriend, or even a prostitute. The mother housekeeper role was still prominent and it shows in the novel, Holdens experiences with the opposite gender were crippled (he didn't really care for most people though). Although it was fairly common for men to behave this way towards women.