Catcher In The Rye, The Narrative Of The Life Of Fd, A...

English Final Exam - Addressing Identity Essay Question 1: In Catcher In the Rye, The Narrative of the life of FD, A Doll house, and Romeo and Juliet, all of the characters in these stories go through a series of life changing events which shape them as a person. Every single one of these characters starts off their story without knowing the answer the the question â€Å"Who am I?† and throughout the course of their lives (or a shorter time period), they grow and change as people, due to the events of their lives, and the obstacles that they encounter and must overcome in order to reach a place where their true identity becomes apparent. The journey to reach this place is never a short and easy one, and all of these characters have their lives†¦show more content†¦Holden is like a child, trying to be an adult, and trying to adapt the behaviors that he think will make him more grown-up, while Nora is the opposite. She is an adult that adapts the behavior and personality of a child, in order to attempt to fit into the role of t he â€Å"submissive housewife,† which she has been forced into since she was a child, first by her father, and then by Torvald. While these actions of theirs make the Holden and Nora very different characters, they also show another way that these character are alike. To realize who they are, they need to remove these fake (or ‘phony’ as Holden might say) identities. Even though the behaviors and personalities Holden and Nora try to take on are opposites, the purpose for these fake identities is the same. Holden and Nora are outsiders compared to everyone else that shares their basic traits. An example of this is that Holden is very different from the other boys of his age. He doesn’t know how to interact with girls/women, and he doesn t share the same, or even similar, morals of his fellow peers. He tries to force himself to be more like them, though, by doing things like paying Sunny to have sex with him, even though he clearly doesn’t want to and didn’t in the first place. In that example, Holden is setting himself up for