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The subject that the universe has an outward visual aspect that seems just and perfect but truly they & # 8217 ; re as Holden put it & # 8220 ; phonies. & # 8221 ; This is shown infinite sum of times in his journey through New York and even before he left. The scene is in the 1950 & # 8217 ; s ; so I & # 8217 ; m pretty sure that he didn & # 8217 ; t meet any cross-dressers, tribades, or anything that extreme of phoniest. Or on the other manus he could hold liked them for being as Elmemson said a & # 8220 ; none conformist. & # 8221 ; But I doubt it, he seemed to wish childs more than anything. And his occupation, as he felt, was to protect them in their inexperienced persons ; of which I will speak about in my 2nd subject. The first illustration that stands out in my head is the scene with Stradlater in the & # 8220 ; can. & # 8221 ; If you remember Stradlater was acquiring ready for his other day of the month while Holden watched him. & # 8220 ; Stradlater was a secret sloven & # 8221 ; in populace he ever looked good and got all the misss but in fact he was a sloven. His razor that made him look so good was & # 8220 ; rusty as snake pit and full on soapsuds and hair and crap. & # 8221 ; This proves that he is a sloven to & # 8220 ; ne’er clean it or anything. & # 8221 ; If you think about it that & # 8217 ; s even worst than Old Ackley. At least Ackley knew that he had a job, that he need to make something about his face ; but Stradlater thought that he was a great cat. He really thought that there was nil incorrect with ne’er rinsing his razor. I think that what mad, Holden so made Stradlater was commiting in other word being & # 8220 ; phony & # 8221 ; every clip he went out all GQ after utilizing that foul razor. Another case is when he calls that miss in New York, Faith Cavendish, that Eddie Birdsell had brought to a dance at Princeton. Anyway he called her and she about went off until Holden drooped Eddie & # 8217 ; s name. Then all of a sudden & # 8220 ; she was acquiring friendly as hell. & # 8221 ; The same individual said & # 8220 ; if you think I enjoy bein & # 8217 ; woke up in the middle- & # 8221 ; was & # 8220 ; acquiring an English speech pattern all of a sudden. & # 8221 ; I think Holden caught her with her fa? ade down. When she foremost picked up the phone she was huffy as anybody else would be in her places. But every bit shortly as she processed & # 8220 ; Eddie Birdsell from Princeton & # 8221 ; she became so amicable. She most of idea that a friend of Eddie, from Princeton, most have been rich or at lest good away. Faith was all ready to hook up with him for a day of the month until she asked & # 8220 ; Where ya callin & # 8217 ; from? Where ya at now, anyways? & # 8221 ; And & # 8220 ; in a phone booth & # 8221 ; was the incorrect reply. When he said that she new he had no money and from that point on she had no clip to run into up any more. This is a good illustration of the phoniest that Holden will speak about all through book. Oh and one I about missed it is a small before the conversation with Faith it is a really of import event. When J.D. Salinger had Holden expression about of the window I think it was a large simile, of which I think about more in subject figure 3, of the subject of the book. I & # 8217 ; m certain Holden didn & # 8217 ; t sit all the manner to New York to pick a run down hotel. So I take it when he drove up it likely looked good on the exterior. He even & # 8220 ; took it off [ mentioning to the ruddy hunting hat ] before I checked inI didn & # 8217 ; t want to look like a crackpot or something. & # 8221 ; So we can presume it was nice, or at lest on the exterior. Salinger even throw Holden foreshadowed a small in the line & # 8220 ; I didn & # 8217 ; t cognize so that the blasted hotel was full of deviants and morons. & # 8221 ; The first cat he saw out his room window & # 8220 ; took out all these adult females & # 8217 ; s apparels, and put them on. & # 8221 ; Then he started walking about like a adult females, smoking a coffin nail, and looking in the mirror. And now I guest I have to take back my sentence about cross-dressers in the gap paragraph. Second he saw a twosome squiring H2O and & # 8220 ; they were in hysterics the whole clip, & # 8221 ; a small unusual. You see the exterior of the hotel represents what society is or attempts to be, all nice and orderly. And the people moving silly in the suites are what we a truly similar. Im non stating we are all deviants but we all have two different personalities ; one exterior and one interior closed doors. Since I & # 8217 ; m will into the 2nd page and it & # 8217 ; s past my bed clip or at lest it feels like it is this is the last 1 for this subject. The 1 I had in head is the one the day of the month he had with Sally. From the leap she was bogus. Holden had already talked to her pa and told him how it was, but she still asked how it was. Holden when call her & # 8220 ; quite a small hypocrite, & # 8221 ; she even sounded hypocrite through the book with lines like & # 8220 ; I & # 8217 ; d love to grand. & # 8221 ; And when they got through with the drama on the Alfred lunts it didn & # 8217 ; t acquire any better. They ran into this cat that Sally knew and both of their phoniest began to reflect. & # 8220 ; You & # 8217 ; ve though that they hadn & # 8217 ; t seen each other for twenty old ages & # 8221 ; they likely even hugged and kissed cheques and all. And the amusing thing is that & # 8220 ; they likely met each other merely once. & # 8221 ; And from that point on they went on a pursuit to outname the other. & # 8220 ; They both kept thought of topographic points every bit fast as they could & # 8221 ; seeking to acquire the upper-hand in a game of semblance. They both were seeking to, I guest, show they are more popular than the other by doing it seem like they known all these topographic points and people, when in actuality they were two large hypocrites. The following Subject of this narrative that I want to speak about is the significance of the novel & # 8217 ; s rubric. First of all I have to state why the book was entitle as it was & # 8220 ; The Catcher in the Rye. & # 8221 ; The rubric of the book is a enigma all the manner until chapter 21 when he sneaked back place to see Phoebe. When Phoebe fronted him about acquiring kicked out of school once more stating & # 8220 ; you don & # 8217 ; Ts like anything & # 8221 ; Holden was forced to come up with something he would bask to be or make. After proceedingss of chew overing Holden said & # 8220 ; I & # 8217 ; d merely be the backstop in the rye and all. & # 8221 ; He merely wanted to salvage the small guiltless childs from falling. The childs I think represent the

innocents of the young just playing and when they fall off the cliff they discover the world. He wants to protect them and keep them pure will. All through the story Salinger used Holden as the catcher on the rye to protect or try to protect the innocents of kids. The biggest and most memorial of this protection is when he went to Phoebe elementary school to talk to her before he had to leave. Anyway he saw the word fuck you on the hall walls and “it drove him dam near crazy.” He couldn’t stand the idea that Phoebe or her friend had seen that on the wall. If they saw it they would wonder and eventually “some dirty kid would tell them” and they would know the cruel the world thus falling in the rye. As his duty as the catcher in the rye Holden tried to erase the first one that was on the walls, but later said “it’s hopeless anyway. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the fuck you signs in the world. Its impossible.” Now I think the word tragedy goes right there. If the job that Holden is set out to do is inevitable then it’s a tragedy. Salinger illustrates a full blown tragedy with a 15 year old boy; it sounds a lot like the classic we read last year Romeo and Juliet. A young boy, even the same age, is placed in a no win situation. The next one I just thought about is the time Holden got a snow ball off the window cell. This has nothing to go with protecting but it is about purity. Holden got some show from off the window pan and he “started to throw it” but after looking out at the scene he decides not to. He said he stared it throw it at a car and fire hydrogen but they looked “too nice and white.” Holden is consumed with finding and protecting purity, and when he found something pure he didn”t want to disturb it. But it’s strange how he used the words “nice and white,” I know that the snow was white but is there something more there. White is often associated with pure and even holiness. He may be comparing it to a holy site; because he does ask Ackley about joining later in the book. You never know. Theme number three is going to be a discussing about Salinger and his symbolism. Salinger is a master of the subtle symbolism. He lays his symbols so subtle that most of the time they’re not even found or addressed even by a commentary over the book. I really enjoyed reading and rereading this book to find embedding symbols. I think that’s what made it so good. A very important character that is referred to all throgh the story by Holden is Allie. Allie is Holder’s younger brother who died of leukemia when he was just thirteen. Holden loved his brother more than anything and when he died he punched out all the windows in the garage. He said that “my hand still hurts me once in a while.” This is symbolic of the love he had and still has for his little brother; he even quotes latter that “you don’t stop loving someone because they die” proving that he still cares for him. He may even think he had something to do with his death or he caused it. Sometimes little kids think stuff like that. Holden also says that ” I can’t make a real fist any more-not a tight one.” If his fist represents his love for his brother or his heart than maybe he can’t love again. When he meet up with Sally he said he felt like marring her than he discards it by saying “I don’t even like her much.” Holden is afraid to love again because of the way his heart and fist was broken by Allie. Another symbol is his own sister Phoebe. First you must understand that Phoebe came from the Greek word meaning Sun. Holden is lost in the world and feels that everything is “phony.” Phoebe is his symbol of hope in the world. All Holden needs is hope. Just as the sun comes out and shines it’s beautiful color and truth to the world to nurrshish and feed the plant; so did Phoebe come with her innocent hands saving Holden from the world. “The first thing I did when I got off at Penn station, I went into this phone booth.” Holden first started to call his brother but then he thought of his sitter Phoebe, then he whet on about her and how she wouldn’t mind being woke up. All through the book he will think about call and eventually sneak home just to see her. This shows he sees her as his only light in this world of phonies hint the name Phoebe Greek for sun. I read a very interesting point in a book review about The Catcher in the Rye that explains the Holden behavior all through the book. In short it said his activities “describes a developing nervous breakdown.” And if you think of the symptoms you would a agree. Unexplained depression, show countless time in the story as “I felt depressed as hell.” And the why that Salinger keep using the world depressed, not bad or mellow but depressed he may have been hinting at it. Impulsive spending, that is obvious through the fact he only had “3 dollars and some change” after just 2 days in New York. Erratic behavior, example is Holden just jumping up and put Stradlater in a “half Nelson.” All of this is prior to his eventual nervous collapse. This book has been a joy to read. Holden was very funny at times especially when he called Sally to ask her about “trim a tree” for Christmas. Salinger is ether a great writer or he just lucked up this good of a story. Sometimes I wonder if the author of books always think as deep as the reader. I mean do authors read a commentary over a book they wrote and say, hmm I didn’t think of that. Writers like Edgar Allen are obvious that they have a deeper meaning. But with Salinger it’s hard to tell if this is a simple story of a boy rebelling or is it a great big metaphor for the world and how we are. Now if you ask him I,m sure he would say “oh that’s what meant exactly,” and he might as well have meant that; but who is to say.