Salinger incorporated was a kids ride, the carrousel. The carrousel symbolized a safe haven for Holden, his brother Allie, and his sister Phoebe Caulfield. As kids, when the three of them went to the carrousel, they could never get Phoebe off of the ride. Moreover, this symbolic figure relates to the theme by addressing childhood innocence. Holden remarks, “I didn’t care, though, I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around.” This moment reminisces how much Holden misses being a child, how ecstatic he was, and that he misses how pure and entertaining everything was. Not only that, this scene represented turning over a new leaf, as Holden finally decided to grow up, and stop being the “The Catcher In The Rye.” He figured out that children need to learn and fall for themselves. Therefore, Salinger cleverly wrote how Holden would start his new change, how he’d start his new life adapting to the world of