... English and praised as the greatest book in the twentieth century. Catcher in the Rye has been reviewed in many aspects. People had drawn many conclusions in trying to decipher the meaning of Catcher in the Rye and the mind behind the mysterious Salinger. It has been said that Buddhism is one apparent aspect in this book and it was also apparent in Salinger's life, but does Salinger exhibit Buddhism on different levels in Catcher in the Rye? Chris intro Catcher in the Rye: Holden Goes Through ... thirteen. Holden loved his brother more than anything and when he died he punched out all t...

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... minutes of pondering Holden said "I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all." He just wanted to save the little innocent kids from falling. The kids I think represent the innocents of the young just playing and when they fall off the cliff they discover the world. He wants to protect them and keep them pure will. All through the story Salinger used Holden as the catcher on the rye to protect or try to protect ... " and they would know the cruel the world thus falling in the rye. As his duty as the catcher in the rye Holden tried to erase the first one that was on the walls, but later sa...

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... . She states that Wells, Bennett and Galsworthy are "materialists", "concerned not with the spirit but with the body" and it is for that reason the "we" the "Georgians" have a quarrel with them. She goes on to criticize the way Wells, Bennett and Galsworthy represent "life". In one of her most famous quotes she says: "Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day ... . The mind receives a myriad of impressions-trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel." She goes on to say that "life" in not the way Bennet presents it. "Life ... , emotionally distu...

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... have been destroyed by either the cruelty of the world around them or their own inability to realize the falseness of the dream which they hoped to attain. In the poems of T.S. Eliot he describes a world in which all hopes and ambitions are lost. He paints a picture that shows this life as a wasteland for the soul. J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, incorporates several nihilistic aspects. In the novel the principle character, Holden Caulfeild ... would often describe and predict how society is moving towards some catastrophic event. In one of his most famous quotes he says " Life ...

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