“The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman.”

MEG-11 AMERICAN NOVEL

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                          Course Code: MEG-11/ 2016-17

                          Max. Marks: 100

Q5:- “The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman.” Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer.

The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman, a novel about a young character’s growth into maturity. While it is appropriate to discuss the novel in such terms, Holden Caulfield is an unusual protagonist for a bildungsroman because his central goal is to resist the process of maturity itself. As his thoughts about the Museum of Natural History demonstrate, Holden fears change and is overwhelmed by complexity. He wants everything to be easily understandable and eternally fixed, like the statues of Eskimos and Indians in the museum. He is frightened because he is guilty of the sins he criticizes in others, and because he can’t understand everything around him.

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