Mentions (7)
"I swear most of you guys spend all day hating on people and thinking you're superior like some kinda wannabe Holden Caulfield. No wonder the incels are drawn to this place."
"It's weird how often I hear people that, in any other context, would agree that mental health is important and often an overlooked problem among adolescents and teenagers, casually dismiss him as whiny, obnoxious, and entitled. The kid's little brother, one of the people he loves most in the world, "
"the holden caulfield hate is so weird. i love holden, his desperation to cling onto childhood innocence is so tragic. also i felt represented when he said 'i'm quite illiterate, but i read a lot'"
"These children go on to high school where they become subjected to Holden Caulfield, whom they will inevitably feel a connection to. They will delude themselves into believing that they are somehow better than all of their peers."
"Elsewhere I've seen people say that don't like Blood Meridian because the characters do bad things, or the classic 'Holden Caulfield is a whiny loser!'"
"just terrible. Its like shooting the environment in the belly. And now the rain in other states smells because of the pollution. it's hard to be optimistic about the future with shit like this. people are going to get cancer. there was no sense of common good involved with these railroad companies. "
"i just wrote up a really long, really gay and self important holden caulfield ass post about my psyche but i'll spare you all from reading it and just keep it short and succinct and shout into this void that im tired of pushing the boulder and trying to fill the emptiness i feel in my doomed ass sou"