Women In The 1950's and Catcher In The Rye
In the 1950s Women were culturally recognized as being only the house maid of the home by taking care of the cleaning, cooking meals and taking care of the family. Women were forced to leave school early cause men feared that they would take their jobs and when men took job which were specified for women during that period such as teaching or textiles were considered to be pedophiles. Most of the women were married to men at a very early age cause of being dropped out of school and or university.
The author of the novel J. D. Salinger somewhat documented about these issues being written in a depressed person called Holden Caulfield's point of view by saying that he believes that women would just be driven by instinct and just go out with guys for the money. He felt this way mainly because that was the sort of women he was hanging with, and because he tends to generalize although he respects his sister for many reasons.
In the paragraphs shows how what Holden thinks of a woman being illustrated in chapter 13. (Chapter 13)
"I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains."
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