Catcher in The Rye

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Throughout the book The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger uses many symbols to explain in a deeper way what Holden Caulfield is feeling. Three symbols that Salinger uses represent anti change and things staying the same. The Museum of Natural History is an example of things staying the same. The carousel at the zoo, that Phoebe rides in the end of the story, also never changes.The job that Holden would like to have, being "the catcher in the rye" symbolizes him wanting to stop change from happening. In the book, Holden comes across as the type of person who is anti change and wants his surroundings to stay the same.
The Museum of Natural History is a big example that Holden dislikes change.Every floor and every showcase stage in the museum never changes.Everything put on display in the museum stays like that the whole time; nothing is ever moved or replaced by something else. Holden likes it this way." The best thing though, in the museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish." Pg. 121 Holden says this as he is looking around at the displays at the museum. The way Holden likes the museum never changing, shows not only does Holden's dislike for change in himself, but his dislike for change in his surroundings.
Holden, when talking to his sister, reveals the job he would like to have.Holden says that the perfect job for him would be to watch little kids play in a field of rye and if they ever got to close to the edge, he would be the one who caught them and took them back to safety.Holden would like to be "the catcher in the rye."" I'm standing on the edge of this cliff, what I have to do, I have to catch everybody, if they start to go over the cliff." Pg. 173 Holden is seeing the cliff as "the cliff of change" and if …

Catcher In The Rye

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Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger’s New Yorker stories–particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme With Love and Squalor–will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children’s voices, adult voices, underground voices-but Holden’s voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure. However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.

Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with “cynical adolescent.” Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he’s been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins, “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.” His constant wry observations about what he encounters, from teachers to phonies (the two of course are not mutually exclusive) capture the essence of the eternal teenage experience of alienation.

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