... Holden get away from phoniness and fake people, but he knows that in some shape or form there will always be a phony person lurking the streets. An additional reason Holden wants to act out on his fantasy of living on the outskirts of the woods has to do with him wanting to become the catcher in the rye. If Holden were to have kids with his wife, he would ... teach them how to read and write. This is a fine example of why Holden would live to be the catcher of the rye in some sense. The quote, "I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if...

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... to meet Sally. They watched a movie together and were getting along well. After the movie, they had a fight and Holden told Sally that she was a pain in the ass. His reason for this, "she was really depressing the hell out of me."(Salinger, 133) This quote shows that Holden is not in a good mood and he is taking out his anger on Sally. She really took ... . There, he slept on a bench. Holden woke up early because people started to come into the waiting room. "And I think I was more depressed than I ever was in my whole life."(Salinger, 194). This quote shows that Holden has reached a new...

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... encounters many scenarios involving friendships, personal opinions, and his love of children. His journey is an unpleasant and difficult one with many lessons learned along the way. Holden possesses abnormal relationships with some of the characters in Catcher in the Rye. Many of his friends and those he talks highly about are young children. He does not make any negative comments about these companions, and there is ... or when he becomes an adult how unphony he would be. The funny thing is Holden at one point is holding his stomach like he has been shot in a movie, when he has just ta...

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... , where he has been for several months. At the start of the novel Holden makes it clear that he is not writing his life story, about his childhood, or, as he puts it, "all that David Copperfield kind of crap." This quote is very interesting in the make-up of the plot because it tells you right off the bat that this is going to be similar ... to a psychoanalysis of a few days in the life of Holden Caulfield. Holden begins his account on a Saturday in December a few days before the students of Pencey Prep are released for Christmas break. He ... there is a cliff at the end of the field wh...

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... either get anxious about forming relationships, or simply avoid them all together. In the notable fiction novel The Catcher in the Rye, author J.D Salinger brings the troubled, humorous, and adolescent character of Holden Caulfield to life, where he struggles with growing up, the uncontrollable changes in his life, and, most importantly, attachments with other humans. As a reader, a certain pattern in Holden's attachment abilities is observed, and it is made clear that ... for him. Later on in the story, a similar situation occurs with Mr. Antolini, Holden's old teacher from his previou...

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