First Half of The Catcher in the Rye

After being about halfway through the book now I am enjoying it.  I think that Holden has a terrible view of life and is very negative.  I found is strange how he is failing out of something like his fourth school and in one part he was talking about how his parents want him to go to a school like Yale.  I don't know how he could get into a school like that if his grades are so bad.  I think that some of his negativity could have started when his brother died.  That would be very hard for and child to go through and it sounded like he really looked up and loved his brother even though he was younger then him.  One thing that I noticed is Holden is always saying how depressed he is.  He also mentions windows a lot.  He will say something like I looked out the window and felt depressed.  I wonder if that could do something with his brother dying.  After his brother died he broke all of the windows in his garage.  Maybe there is a connection there.  Overall I think that this is a pretty good book up to this point.