catcher in the rye
...he train to New York, he met Mrs. Morrow. “ Her son was doubtless the biggest bastard that ever went to Pencey, in the whole crumby history of the school.” She thinks that her son is an angel, but Holden knows what he is like, and he does not like him at all, but he tells her they are friends. He tells her that her son adapts himself well, so she would not bother him about why he does not like her son, just to shut her up. Holden has been kicked out of four different schools because he flunks most of his subjects and he does not apply himself. An idealist would study every night to get perfect grades, but Holden just does not care. Holden talks and acts like he wants to commit suicide. “ That kills me.” Everything that he hated always “killed” him. He went to see Phoebe and she asked him one thing he liked and his thoughts were of a dead boy, who died wearing his turtleneck that Holden let him borrow. He told her that he like Allie, his dead brother. He even wrote a composition for Stradlater about Allie’s baseball glove. His thoughts are all about death, and what its like to be dead. Whenever Holden got drunk, he always acted like someone had shot him and he was dying, and he was trying to stop the bleeding. Holden read a magazine that said if you have sores on your mouth that do not go away, then you have cancer. He believed it, but he did not care that he would be dead in a few months so he just kept on walking, not worried at all. To Holden, just about everything is phony. Nothing is real to him; he cannot grasp the thought of reality. All the people at his old schools were phony; all the teachers who taught him were phonies. Phoniness stands as a symbol of everything that's wrong in the world around him. Holden is an idealist because he prevents many people from losing their innocence. He rubs off the “bad graffiti” in the school halls because the kids are too young to see it and understand it, and he does not want them to have thoughts about it. Holden. In his dream, all the kids are falling off the rye field cliff and he has to catch them all before they go to protect them from losing their innocence. Holden is “The Catcher in the Rye”. Holden’s red hunting hat is a symbol of his uniqueness and individuality, his freedom from everyone else. It shows his need for being alone and his need for friendship also. When he wears it, it gives him a feeling of being special and important. Holden i...