... to talk about is the significance of the novel's title. First of all I have to say why the book was entitle as it was "The Catcher in the Rye." The title of the book is a mystery all the way until chapter 21 when he sneaked back home to see Phoebe. When Phoebe fronted him about ... like anything" Holden was forced to come up with something he would enjoy to be or do. After 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 ... t...

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The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger The Main characters in this book are Holden Caulfield. He is the main character. The whole story pretty much revolves around him. He is telling this story to a ... him. She is worried about the chaos that he is going to cause because of him being expelled from school. He tells her later that he wants to be a catcher in the rye. So he can prevent careless children from falling over the edge while playing in the field. Phoebe corrects him and tells him that he has "misquoted burns" and that ... no one can stay in the rye field forever. He decides to g...

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... why he tries to make it look like all the people around him are the phonies even though he is the biggest phony of them all. His dream of being a catcher in the rye is the most symbolic thing in this story. He has so much anxiety of growing up he wants to protect little kids from growing up. He explains being ... a catcher in the rye to Phoebe like this "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean except me. And I"m standing on the edge of ... ...

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... , unbalanced, psychotic and have complexes and fixations. The author does not only present them in that fashion, but psychological jargon is into everyday language. Some modern examples are The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and Herzog by Saul Bellow. Woolf's novels were not only modern in style but also in content, reflecting a shift in societal norms. A main difference between modern novels ... ...

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... pessimistically, or they will be forever haunted by fear and anxiety. Rational thinking based on reason is a key to overcoming the misery of false impressions. The works of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Shakespeare's Othello are very similar in many ways, in that they both use akin aspects of characters to reveal how they are alike. Through situations, characters suffered because ... ...

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