The Catcher in the Rye
The story begins as Holden is being expelled from Pency, a preppy high school overflowing with showy, artificial “phonies”. To Holden, everyone is living a life totally different from who and what they are, just to please other people. The world seems blind to reality, and Holden wants to stop it. After he realizes that a person cannot be changed, he seems to just give up. Not wanting to go home, (out of fear of …
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…d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know it’s crazy…” He wants to save people from falling off the cliff of reality and into the world of deceitful seduction. The only thing Holden does not realize, is that he, himself, is the true epitome of “phony”.
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