Sunday, May 1, 2011
Sympathy, Empathy, or Judgement?
After reading the first four chapters of The Catcher In the Rye I decided that I am sympathetic for Holden. Stradlater is doing better in school, more athletic, and better looking than him and is taking the girl he likes on a date and doesn't even know her name. Holden is lonely because he doesn't have any friends; he isn't close with his roomate or Ackley, who he just makes fun of. Even though he makes Ackley seem like a gross person who has nothing to live for, they are both very similar in the way that neither of them have friends. Also, neither of them went to the football game. My general impression of Holden thus far is that he is lonely because he doesn't try in school or outside of school to make friends or be connected with anybody or anything.
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I feel like your sort of contradicting yourself here...you say that you feel bad for him because he doesnt have any freinds and doesnt get involved in anything but then you go on and say he doesnt try in school and he doesnt go to any football games and he doesnt try to get connected with anyone...and we just read chapters 9 through 11 and he even says when he is thinking about calling people, that he just doesnt feel like talking to anyone.
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