Catcher In The Rye Nun Analysis Essay

Towards the middle of the book “Catcher in the Rye”, the main character Holden Caulfield comes across two nuns while sitting at a train station. The nuns play a minor role, and in this scene are used as a way for the reader to learn more about Holden’s beliefs and thoughts. As Holden is speaking to the nuns, the reader is able to use their conversations as a way to analyze Holden’s views, and therefore tell us more information about the character. For example, Holden begins to have a conversation with the nuns about literature, more specifically one of Shakespeare’s plays “Romeo and Juliet”. Prior to this scene Holden tells the readers that he isn’t considered to be all that smart and that his brothers and sisters are 50 times more intelligent…