There are seven levels of grief through the process of life and back. These stages are denial, depression, anger, bargaining, guilt, reconstruction, and finally acceptance. Different levels of grief are displayed through the main figure Holden Caulfield in the book, The Catcher in the Rye. Three levels of the periods of grief sticks out the most and are centered on as Holden undergoes the procedure of eventually acknowledging his loss. Inside the novel the Catcher in the Rye, the type, Holden Caulfield, goes through the many stages of grief, such as, anger, denial, and unhappiness, after the fatality of his brother, Allie.
Two phases such as anger and denial in the levels of grief are symbolized when Holden retraces one of his remembrances after Allie's death. The ram Holden shares with us, is the time when he makes a decision to invest a night in his garage Through his anger from his brother's death, Holden rampages in the storage, breaking most of its windows. Out of this landscape, Holden shows the phases of anger and denial.
"I slept in the garage area the night he perished, and I broke all the goddamn home windows with my fist, simply for the hell of it it was very ridiculous I have to acknowledge, but I barely didn't even know I was doing it, and also you didn't know Allie (Salinger, 39). "
During that nighttime, Holden expresses his anger and denial by breaking all of the glass windows rather than admitting why he performed so. From the increased loss of his brother Allie, Holden expresses his anger and denial actually and mentally. Holden's anger was indicated through his actions of physically breaking the storage windows along with his fist, and his stage of denial was symbolized by him not admitting why he performed so. Corresponding to Sarah Cifelli, Holden's denial of his brother's loss of life leads him to do this in the storage, so when asked why he do so, Holden doesn't admit and take credit for what he did. "His inability to simply accept the loss of his sibling becomes clearer The action of breaking a whole garage full of windows poses questions, but the primary point is, he did not admit the explanation for breaking them (Cifelli 2006). " Although both of the stages of anger and denial are present here, the most important stage represented is really denial. By Holden not admitting why he broke the windows in the car port in the first place, the level of denial is the most crucial stage displayed here. As Sarah Cifelli has stated before, " the primary point is he didn't admit the explanation for breaking them" implies that Holden still is convinced that Allie continues to be alive, which causes the primary reason of why Holden got the action of breaking all of the windows.
In another memory space Holden shares with us in the novel the Catcher in the Rye, the stage of denial and major depression can be found as he will try to keep up both his innocence and romantic relationship with Allie. Holden Caulfield needs to be the "Catcher in the Rye". Quite simply, he needs to capture all the children who are dropping off a cliff into adulthood. Both of the phases are represented together as Holden "catches" everyone from getting rid of their innocence.
"And I'm sitting on the advantage of some crazy cliff. What I must do, I must catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if they are running plus they don't look over where they're going I must turn out from anywhere and get them. That's all I'd do all day long. I'd you need to be the catcher in the rye and everything. I understand it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I understand it's crazy (Salinger, 173). "
During this landscape, Holden is wanting to share his little sister, Phoebe, that he wishes to keep everyone safe also to "catch" them from dropping off a cliff. By "catching" people from falling off the cliff, Holden is discussing stop kids from growing up and getting rid of their innocence from the mature world. Holden desires to protect those that he adores and whom he's close to. Besides his little sister Phoebe, Holden also needs to protect all of the children and their innocence. Becoming the "catcher in the rye" in Holden's mind, this means that he still needs to "catch" Allie from falling off the cliff. Being that Allie is already dead, this shows that Holden is at denial of Allie ever before dying. This also pertains to Holden's depression in a sense that Holden is not going to accept the fact that he must grow up and sign up for adulthood alternatively than doing offers and everything. As everything around Holden is sharing with him to expand up, Holden transforms away from what he thinks will bring him farther aside from his marriage with Allie. As Parthkatri claims in the following estimate, he helps make clear that Holden doesn't want to improve and would prefer to be with his brother Allie as a kid. Sadly, Holden doesn't realize that Allie is dead, and for that reason kicks him in to the phases of denial and unhappiness. "Holden is not eager to accept the inevitability to change After Allie's loss of life, Holden equates the loss of innocence from the changes of the adult world (Parthkatri 2009). " Essentially, Holden is concern with growing up because of two reasons. One being that his brother Allie passed on as a kid and another because Holden believes that all children hold their innocence before they lose it in the adult world. The stage of grief represented here are denial and unhappiness because Holden wishes to maintain his relationship with Allie as a kid and store his own innocence, but at the same time, Holden is on the verge of becoming a grown-up, forcing him into more stress and difficulty giving him to despair. Therefore, Holden would like to safeguard children and "catch" them from slipping into the adult world. In the meantime, Holden is actually on the verge of slipping himself from the cliff and onto the lap of adulthood. As Parthkatri has explained before, Holden doesn't want to improve, but as he continues on his voyage in the book, the globe is displaying him that he must change because growing up is an integral part of life so you cannot try to escape from it.
