Catcher In The Rye Literary Analysis

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Secondly, Holden tries to refuse the fact that things cannot stay the same way. Throughout the book Holden is at a tough time in his life where he is in denial and is really hard for him to accept things like Allie’s death. Even though Allie is dead he tires to preserve and protect children because he does not want them to suffer like him. When he says “ The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was . Nobody’d move. … Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you.”(Salinger 121). Throughout the book Holden has the difficulty in dealing with Allie’s death. This quote implicitly reveals that Holden wants things to stay the same way and that by his past memories he does not want to let go. …show more content…

Holden is having a tough time to accept it because he had so many good memories and he was Holden’s role model. The museum symbolizes how Holden wants his life to be; a life where things do not change. He does not want it to change like the museum because of his past memories with Allie now gone. In addition, this quote implicitly reveals that Holden has the fear of tremendous and unpredictable change in his life. When he proclaims “Anyways, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of the rye and all.. I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff- I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going I have to come out of somewhere and catch them” (Salinger 173). This quotation reveals on how he wants to save and preserve the innocence of children. This implicitly reveals that Holden wants to protect kids from bad or scary events. Moreover this quotation shows that Holden is willing to risk his life so that other children will not have a traumatic experience like him. This not only reveals the title of the book, The Catcher in the Rye but also reveals his love for

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