Theory Of Holden Essay

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happy knowing that although she’s experiencing the different things in life and moving on, she still is going to stay the same.
The ducks: The ducks symbolize Holden. He’s at a point where he doesn’t know where to go. Like the ducks, his lake has frozen over and his time has come where he can’t stay in the same period for the rest of his life, he has to move on, yet he doesn’t know where to go or what to do. So he asks various people where the ducks in Manhattan go when the lake freezes over, in search of a response that might subconsciously answer his question in life.
2. World War II shook up people’s beliefs in their country and the way that they lived. So after WWII people are scrambling around trying to find their own identity or even make it up. This setting is significant to Catcher and the Rye because this identity search makes up for the fact that he sees everyone as phonies. In search of their identity they are trying to be people whom ...

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Holden’s life because they are the only two people in his life he really loves, everyone else he considers ‘a bunch of phonies’. He portrays Allie as a basically flawless human being and even though has passed away, he still lives on in Holden’s life. He places Allie on a pedestal, and regularly talks to him out loud. Phoebe is his pride and joy and respects her in every way. He sees them with a perfect life and envies their childhood. His joy comes out of his memories and reminisces with the past when he used to play with them, which he always does. Everything he encounters, he compares and contrasts it with his two younger siblings.

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