In Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield goes through many
events in just three days that seemed to impact his life a lot.
He began to realize things about himself, and changes
occurred within him. Now it's 35 years later and Holden has
grown up, and has finally entered the real world. Holden
now works for a high school as a student counselor, and
deals with problems of children everyday. He is very well
liked at the school and he has only been there for three
years. He sometimes gets attached with the students
dilemmas, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. He is also
the leader of the schools Students Reaching Out program.
Holden has enjoyed his job ever since he has started and
has never thought of leaving it. Holden now lives in the small
town of Wellingville in California. He is married to a women
he met when he went back to college and they have 2 kids,
both girls. One is 6 and the other is 3. Holden's wife has all
the qualities that Jane did. A very sweet women with a great
personality. They made a perfect couple. He has gave his
kids financial and emotional support that his own parents
never gave him. Cole Cuchna 12/2/99 Per7 He does this
because he doesn't want his kids to go through what he did
growing up. Holden has made many compromises as he has
grew up. Through his daily therapy he realized that he can't
be everything he wants to be. He can't save every child he
meets from growing up and entering the real world. Every
child loses their innocents sometime in their life, and Holden
becomes to realize that. As he matures he doesn't try to save
them from the real world, but he helps them accept it. This is
why Holden is a good counselor for teenagers because
teenagers are usually just beginning to enter the real world
and Holden can help them through it. Also, as he grew he
picked up on a hobby. Everyday after work, Holden goes to
the local park and feeds the ducks. Everyday he does this, in
the winter time and everything. It gives him time to think
about what went on in the day and helps him concentrate on
any issues he might be having at the time. As Holden grew
up, he matured a lot but he also did retain some of his
childhood qualities. One of these such qualities is his
constant changing of personalities. He will go from thinking
he is crazy, to then thinking he is something else. That is
something that will stay with him until he dies. That is just
Holden's personality. Cole Cuchna 12/2/99 Per7 All in all,
Holden's life is successful. He was able to turn around his life
after his emotional breakdown in the teen years of his life.
He was able to go back to school, graduate, get married,
have kids, and find a really good job that makes him happy.
I think everyone that knew Holden would be very proud of
him and the way he was able to turn his life around. And I
think everyone that read the book would be proud of him as
well.