Holden Caufield is a person with many mixed feelings. His happiness was left, but not forgotten in the past, and he suffers terribly because he cannot adjust to these changes to his world and also to himself. In the strong sense, looking back at the lost sense of reality that he still hangs on to, relieves him of all the troubles he has at the present time. He always compares things that happened in the …showed first 75 words of 1221 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1221 total…could never understand; the fact that happiness should be the most appreciated thing in life, and not physical achievement. Though they might not be transcendentalists, they view society as corrupt, misunderstood, and illogical. Since they are smart enough to see that fact, they realize that they completed their life of happiness in the past, and now they suffer because they have nowhere to go, when we are still blazing forward in this field of rye...