Essay | Comparing "The Matrix" to "The Catcher in the Rye"

What is the Matrix? The movie simply describes it as a dream world for people to live in without any knowledge of the truth. What is reality for Holden Caulfield? He believes there is a sense of a lack of reality since society is filled with a bunch of phonies. In believing this, you can also say Holden is living in a dream world where people live in without any knowledge of the truth. Thus, Temporal confusion plays a significant role in both J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and the Wachowski brothers The Matrix.

Holden is a cynical 16/17-year-old boy living in a world hidden from the truth. He believes he knows the truth and everyone else has impaired judgement and acts in a "phony" type manner. When you think about this, Holden is like Morpheus. Both know the truth and realize the problems with society and the world....
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