Holden Caulfield vs Me

I am absolutely captivated by the Catcher in the Rye. It is hands down my favorite book to date and the character development is absolutely riveting. Holden Caulfield is me. I am Holden Caulfield! I'm interpreting this book as if J.D. Salinger wrote my biography. I've never been so intrigued by a novel. His ability to alienate in order to self-protect feels familiar. The shallowness of people are described to the tee and the bittersweet feeling of becoming an adult are topics that I think about constantly yet find hard to describe in words.

Oh and here's the most relevent exerpt to my life:

• "I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible." [Ch 3]

and some few pet peeves that we share...

• "He always said it as if he were terrificially bored or terrifically tired. He didn't want you to think he was visiting you or anything. He wanted you to think he'd come by mistake, for God's sake."
• "... he always pickd up your personal stuff and looked at it."
• "He always made you say everything twice."
• "He always put things back in the wrong spot on purpose... He was holding by roommate's knee supporter up to show me. That guy Ackley'd pick up anything. He'd even pick up your jock strap or something. I told him it was Stradlater's. So he chucked in on Stradlater's bed. He got it off Stradlater's chiffonier, so he chucked it on the bed."
• "He was exactly the type of guy that wouldn't get out of your light when you asked him to."
• "He hated Stradlater's guts and he never came in the room if Stradlater was around. He hated everybody's guts, damn near."
  

It's not much so far, but that's only because I don't want to really get in depth. Anyways, you should read this book if they haven't already made you read it in your senior year literature class. It's a good one.

P.S. Jason said Amelie Poulain (main character of Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain) and Holden Caulfield (the Catcher in the Rye main character) would produce me as a baby.

I'll post up some March Event pictures soon.
'Til then!