How Does 1991 Relate To The Catcher In The Rye

“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.” (Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991. Print.) The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger is a Holden Caulfield hates change and depresses himself over the fact that he can’t prevent it. He wishes that everything would stay the same. Holden feels like it’s his job to protect people from falling into the realm of the corrupt and morally depraved society. A direct quote referring to this is “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And …show more content…
From the way Holden is talking it sounds like he’s a miserable child the way he say “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.”(Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991. Print.) After he tells us about himself he tells us about his boarding school, Pencey Prep. We are first introduced to his History teacher Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer gives Holden a big lecture about his exam paper where Holden voluntarily tells Mr. Spencer that it’s okay to fail on the fact that his is already failing 4 out of 5 subjects. This shows how disinterested in school he is possibly because of his hard life. Later Holden brings us to his dormitory where we meet Ward Stradlater. Stradlater has Holden write a composition for him because he was going on a date with a girl named Jane Gallagher that Holden know from his childhood. The composition had to be about anything descriptive. “A room. Or a house. Or something you once lived in or something---you know.” (Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991. Print.) Holden ends up writing the composition but instead of a descriptive place or thing Holden writes it on his dead brother Allie and his baseball glove. Holden goes into this digression about his brother and how he died. Allie was diagnosed with leukemia and …show more content…
We first find out about his fear of change or (Metathesiophobia) when Stradlater takes Jane Gallagher on a date to Ed Banky's car. Jane Gallagher was Holden’s “friend” in his childhood and Holden was closer to her then she was closer to him. Holden see her as the girl who “always leavers her kings in the back row” when they play checkers. Holden sees her clean and not infected by the world but after her date with Stradlater he worries that she’s not the same. He wants to call her continuously but fears that she has changed just like everyone else. Holden wants to be the savior and prevent everyone from seeing the dangers of the world. When he sees the boy on the curb singing “if a body catch a body running through a field of rye.” Holden notices that he is completely Than Holden mentions this to his sister Phoebe and goes into detail about how he wants to protect kids from seeing the corrupt dangers of the world. When he sees the boy on the curb singing “if a body catch a body running through a field of rye.” Then he tells Phoebe “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going

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How Does 1991 Relate To The Catcher In The Rye

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