... wonder why Salinger hasn't written anything since The Catcher in the Rye. Such a popular novel, I would think his writing career was at the top, but ironically, he is never heard from again. Perhaps some of these questions can be answered when comparing Salinger's life with that of his character's. The setting of The Catcher in the Rye is set among downtown New York City in the 1950's, though this time period has no ... relevance to the story line. One thing that has made this book such a continuing success, is the fact that it could be set in any time period and still contain all of th...

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The Catcher In the Rye is a story of a troubled young man that goes about his everyday life while caught up in the web of his pessimistic views on life. As the story unfolds, Holden Caulfield faces the anxieties of growing up and dealing with adolescent fears, dealing with farfetched. To understand Holden's pessimestic views on life, the reader as to understand what are the troubles he deals with on a day to day basis ... move out west into a cabin by himself. A place where noone can be "phony" and he can be at peace with himself. The other dreams he talks about is that he wants to be "the c...

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... that children frolic around in, however there is a cliff at the end of the field which the children do not see. The song symbolizes the joy of childhood and the suddenness and harsh reality of adult life. Holden interprets one line in the song, "If a body meet a body coming through the rye," as meaning someone is out there trying to catch the children and save them from adulthood. Holden wishes he was this "catcher in the rye" so he can ... prevent people from being corrupted. He meets sally and they go to a movie which Holden ends up despising, but says he enjoys in order ... ...

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... Caulfield, the main character in JD Salinger's 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye. Holden is a lonely adolescent who is reluctant to accept the changes that come with life. As Holden starts to realize that change is inevitable, he becomes more and more unhappy with the world around him. Holden's battle between his dreams and reality causes him to feel despondent about his future. It is Holden's fear of children ... ;if yours are really good ones and theirs aren't. You think if they're intelligent and all, the other person, and have a good sense of humor, that they don't give a damn whose ...

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Catcher In The Rye Project 2) A) Holden walks to the train station and catches a late train to New York City, at a stop in Trenton an attractive women whom is older than Holden boards the train. She sits next to him and recognizes the Pencey Prep sticker on his bag. She turns out to be the mother of one his former classmates, Ernest Morrow. Holden hates Ernest but tells his mother ridiculous lies ... asks him what Holden wants to become of his life. Holden's says, "If a body catch a body comin" through the rye". Holden says he imagines a gigantic filed full of rye with children playing right ...

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... figured out his way to run away also. After publishing The Catcher In The Rye, he stopped writing for publication. In the 1960's he moved to his rural home in New Hampshire and became a recluse. He rejected publication of his work as " a terrible invasion of his privacy." (Salinger, J.D., Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2002). That was Salinger's way of running from the media and being able to be alone without being bothered. Now ... absurd proposition to Sally. It came from Salinger and the fact that he also went to live in somewhat a "cabin" in some rural place in New Hampshire....

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... says the symbolic meaning of the museum and its displays when he says that they appeal to him because they are frozen and unchanging. He mentions also that he is troubled because he knows that he has changed every time he returns to them. The museum represents, as said by Holden, the world he wishes he could live in. This world consists of the fantasy that he will be "the catcher in the rye." In ... that fantasy world nothing is to ever change and everything would have to be simple, logical, and forever. This fantasy of Holden's is not logical at all because change is inevitable ... an...

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