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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... 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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