![]() This gives us insight on his depression and foreshadows us to losing Allie. If you don't, you feel even worse"(Salinger 4). I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. I mean I've left schools and places I didn't even know I was leaving them. At the beginning of the book we are introduced to Holden's depression when Holden says, " What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of good-by. self conflict seems to appear on every single page. ![]() But probably the biggest and hardest one that Holden faces is his internal battle with depression. Salinger does this to further add to the internal conflict Holden is experiencing between choosing adulthood or childhood.Throughout the entire book of "The Catcher in the Rye" Holden faces many conflicts. At the same time however, Holden has not appreciated these acts of love, no matter their uselessness to him, which makes him regretful and sad. He knows that she has tried to provide the best for him by sending him to Pencey and giving him the ice skates that he wants, but yet it is all out of place she doesn’t know what he truly wants and there is a loss of connection between them, as evidenced by the fact that she bought him racing skates instead of hockey skates. Here, Holden questions the immorality of his actions for the sake of his mother. Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.” (Salinger, 1991, pg. She bought me the wrong kind of skates-I wanted racing skates and she bought hockey-but it made me sad anyway. I could see my mother going in Spaulding’s and asking the salesman a million dopy questions-and here I was getting the ax again. I had to pack these brand-new ice skates my mother had practically just sent me a couple of days before. “One thing about packing depressed me a little.
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