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Catcher in the Rye Chapters 9-12 - School Essays

Catcher in the Rye Chapters 9-12

Analyzed Passage 3 -- Chapters 9-12

1. Quote: “‘The fish don’t go no place. They stay right where they are, the fish. Right in the goddam lake.’ ‘The fish--that’s different. The fish is different. I’m talking about the ducks,’ I said. ‘What’s different about it? Nothin’s different about it,’ Horwitz said.” “It’s tougher for the fish, the winter and all, than it is for the ducks, for Chrissake. Use your head, for Chrissake.” “‘They stay right where they are, for Chrissake. ‘They can’t just ignore the ice. They can’t just ignore it.’ ‘Who’s ignoring it? Nobody’s ignoring it!...They live right in the goddam ice. It’s their nature, for Chrissake. They get frozen right in one position for ...

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be able to come and go as they please. While the fish represent the difficulties of the adults and their inability to choose as they please, by being frozen in the lake and being unable to leave. This foreshadows that Holden will change from a child into an adult and will face some type of difficulty in the future and will be unable to run away and will have to face it.

4. Analysis: In this passage the symbols of the ducks and the fish represent the essences of Holden's character because at the moment Holden is focused on the ducks, his current state of mind and representation of the freedom children have. But the taxi driver becomes focused not on the ducks, but on the fish; the adults and their inability to choose what they want. This foreshadows that although Holden is currently in the mindset of a child he will later on become an adult, a fish, and will become unable to make the carefree decisions that he was previously allowed to take. The scene being in the winter and fish ...

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