Jane Gallgher

You’re slowly slipping away. Your health and your sanity are slipping away. Your last reserves of hope lie in sentimental thoughts. Thoughts of happier times in a more joyful place. These thoughts sluggishly fade into obscurity as current dilemmas close in on your mind. Eliminating chance for ecstasy and change. The book The Catcher in The Rye shows several examples of this. When one thing such as this is the only things that can save a broken soul. It must be chased relentlessly until it can be found , so it can save the broken individual.
Holden Caulfield has been living a life full of disappointment and distress. He has been able to evade depression's grasp, but it slowly has caught up to him. His recent grades and the prospect of being sent back to already distraught and concerned parents frightens him. Therefore he chooses to attempt to blend into the New York poverty lifestyle briefly. This however is what sends him off the deep end. Visions of poverty, obscenity, and cruelty disturb him and he longs for the comfort of his childhood. A former neighbor of Holden, Jane Gallagher, provided him with the happiest times of his young life, for she is charismatic enough to relieve him of the burdens of life. Simple days of sitting on a porch in summer talking about irrelevant things appeals to most people, for modern life is too complex. Jane Gallagher provides him with a fun period of time where he can be true and honest for the first and last time in his life. He develops a close relationship with this valued companion, and to see her acquainted someone as conceited as his roommate just breaks his already grief stricken brain. His conscience fails to assist him when he is at his weakest stage. He makes bad decisions which include an overdose of alcohol, involvement in an illegal trade, and worst of all he never comes in contact with Jane. Holden has plenty of opportunities to call his best friend, but he never can dial the phone. Jane ties him to sanity. She is the rope holding a boat to a dock, when one cuts the rope the boat floats away.
Holden Caulfield is yet another soul lost in the complex realm of human behavior. It disgusts him, and he needs to travel back to a lost time. People lost in cases such as this have only one choice and that is to simplify. Humanity can heal from blows to the chest, arms and legs, but once you cut the rope, there is no hope.