5 conflicts of Antigony depicted through Holden Caulfield

I would like to pick up some other elements of classical literature I found in this novel. Catcher in The Rye is essentially a tragedy until the end of the book when Holden finds himself. And with this eerie sense of tragedy foreshadowing the book I was able to pick up the five main conflicts of Antigony in Holden Caulfield’s life. First man against society, this is completely apparent throughout the whole novel. Holden Caulfield absolutely despises anything that he see’s that meets societal conformity. Or at least he appears that way he is secretly denying his desire to fit in. This is why his final outcome is ironic, he is happy and he is seeking professional help in the Mecca of phonies Hollywood. Living and the dead is a little more of a deep-rooted conflict in Holden’s life. It has been affecting him in a strange way ever since his younger brothers death. Holden feels very corrupted by the absence of his younger brother because in a sense he feels like it his fault and that it his duty to protect children from the evil world. But since this hole in his heart has affected him for such a long time he becomes semi suicidal and even dead on the inside alienated from the living until the catcher of course is caught. Another very apparent conflict is young and old. Holden’s original philosophy is that young people are the ultimate virtue in life and that the adult world is plagued with to many evils to even give up one’s youth. This to me is Holden’s main conflict in life. Holden’s man and women conflict actually only really occurs on one occasion in this book. It’s between him and his summer hook up Sally Hayes. She represents to Holden the queen of phonies but through his ironic man and society conflict he loves her at the same time. The man and women conflict creates a raging madness to it’s own extent but when you add all of Holden’s other lunatic qualities you have a recipe for disaster. Holden is in and out of love with this girl in every sentence he speaks with her. She likes him too but not with such a peak, pitfall contrast like Holden. And finally we come to Holden’s perspective of men and the gods. Holden has lost faith or he just has not had time for it. He doesn’t feel he has anything to give grace to and his family was never really that religious. His conflict is that he has not found anything to suggest the presence of god until the end of the novel after all the hell he has gone through. This only occurs after he gets a glimpse of faith through his sister and her love. It seems that through something as wonderful as his sister this story turns from tragedy to redemption. Holden Caulfield’s metamorphoses is in a simplistic statement is “hey there is something better than hating the world for it’s evils and that is loving the world and man kind for what it is”

P.S i chose this pic for the concept of metamorphosis