... . He immediately gets defensive and calls her "a royal pain in the ass". Holden attempts an apology but Sally starts to cry and Holden leaves without her.A more mature way for Holden to handle the situation would have been tosit through the play and tell Sally he enjoyed and also ... of rye with children playing right next to a cliff. As the children come closer to the cliff he wants to catch tem and stop them from falling off the cliff. This statement has a deeper meaning, it is this. Children start out pure and honest, as they grow into adults society pollutes ... as a supremely irritat...

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... and pure. An example can been seen in the scene where Holden wants to be the "Catcher" in the Rye and stops children falling off the Cliff, which could also be symbolised as Holden wanting to catch children from falling into adulthood. Another conflict he has is with women, in his journey he meets many women and when he meets them, he ... the courage to tell his father what he wants, but he is shouted down by his father and slumps back onto the crouch in a position of defeat. Mr Perry then leaves his room then the scene changes to Neil's dark room, moonlight is coming through the window...

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... accepting, his status as an adult. But the key step is when his sister is on the carousel and when he says nothing even if he is scared of her falling: all the kids kept trying to grab for the gold ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she"d fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say ... knows that everybody must make this change from childhood into maturity. Since change is inevitable, Holden learns to deal with it and accepts his responsibilities. By the end, the books leaves most reader wondering whether or not Holden Caulfield finally succeeds in his dream of becomi...

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... I like to call it Holden's journey to finding himself. This kid is so screwed up in the head it really isn't funny. This kid has breakdown after breakdown. After he leaves Pency Prep he is on this train and recognizes one of his fellow classmates mother. He tells this woman all these lies about her son. Although they are lies she ... 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 "...

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