... it. At a car that was parked across the street. But I changed my mind. The car looked so nice and white. Then I started to throw it at a hydrant, but that looked too nice and white, too. Finally I didn't throw it at anything." (36, Salinger) In this quote Holden is starting to see the world differently, more clearly. Earlier in the novel Holden broke a window but now, as ... he is maturing, he opens it. At the beginning of the book he is very close minded, but now as the book goes on he is more open with us, the readers, just like the window. One may believe this is ... , because it is ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... rather than supporting him. Holden can't find a place for himself in the world so he makes up an imaginary one. His fantasy is based on a quote from a poem that he hears a little boy singing. He thinks the words are, "If a body catch a body comin" through the rye." He sees himself in a world with no adults and he as the only "big" person. His job is to stand at ... the end of this great field of rye at the edge of a cliff keeping little children from falling ... also trying to stop everyone else from going on without him. Ironically, Phoebe later informs him of the real words of the po...

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... . "(Salinger, 12) and Holden thought "Game, [his] a** If you [got] on the side where all the hot-shots [were], then it [was] a game, all right But if you [got] on the other side, where there [weren't] any hot-shots, then what [was] game about it? Nothing. "(Salinger, 12-13). This quote reveals early on that Holden is fostering feelings of alienation and victimization from ... the complications of his school and of the world. Holden cannot deal with how the world really is. Throughout the novel, he displays a fondness of an unrealistic and simplistic view of the world. He has this "utopia...

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• Grade Level: High School