Similarities Between The Chrysanthemums And The Catcher In The Rye

the

The

The

The

The

The

the

The

the

The

the

Alienation is common throughout society in regard to adolescent youth and young adults. Many factors cause one to become alienated by their society and peers, including one’s sexuality and often times appearance. Novels such as The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger and The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath, focus on the theme of alienation when considering their main characters, who readers are often able to relate to upon reading their stories. The novels, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger and The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath both convey a theme of alienation through the sexuality, confinement and pressures in society encountered by the protagonists.

One may not realize that a person is living in isolation especially if they are seen around people. It is quite a wonder that one can be quite alienated from normal life or people while still living around them. More so, it is surprising how a person could just choose to live indoors because of his phobia and be happy enjoying his own company. In the two works of literature, The Pleasure of my Company by Steve Martin and The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger, this theme has been expressed in different ways. While Martin in his book, The Pleasure of My Company expresses the theme of isolation by develops a protagonist who is confined from the normal social life like other people by his fears, Salinger develops such a

This intense pressure is only magnified from the perspective of the oppressed and lost youths who seek comfort far away from society in order to be themselves. Jane and Holden develop a disdain for etiquette after reprobation from Holden’s teachers and verbal abuse against Jane that was intended “to dismiss her or her ideas and thereby transform her into something non-threatening” (Peters 61). As “intruder[s] from the outside” (Peters 61) Jane and Holden are driven to find their own paths. Their journeys to adulthood are encumbered by illusions of a pure romance or a life without a designated role and are only completed when they can reconcile their ideals with reality or atone for mistakes caused by these delusions. Once Jane is no longer preoccupied with “her need to validate herself”(Block 216) and assert her independence she can forgive the people who harmed her in the past and recognize and respect the varying perspectives of others.

One of the most important sociological concepts is the belief that our behavior and personalities are shaped by our interactions with the environment around us. Whether they be positive or negative, our experiences with them still contribute to the type of person we grow into. Most of the authors we have looked at over the semester have made use of an individual’s conflict with their environment to help readers build a better understanding for the main character. Authors’ have described characters trapped in many different unfavorable situations with their jobs, families, or communities, but where authors’ differentiate their characters from one another is within their reactions to their specific stimuli. In Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess”