Catcher In The Rye
When I imagine New York City, I almost always picture comfort, belonging and affluence. Especially during Christmas, I imagine relatives going home to their families and children making snow angels on the streets. Everyone just seems to fall right in place. But through Holden Caulfield's mind, New York City became distorted and hostile. I saw a fog hovering over citizen's plastered smiles. There was no concern in the eyes of the people in New York City; none for Holden or even for the ducks in Central Park.
I've never been to New York, but I've seen it through "The Catcher in the Rye". Holden's narration was my looking glass to the dark and gloomy snow globe of New York City.
There is something wrong with this picture. If New York is as terrible as Holden described, then why don't the other characters in the book feel the same way about it? Then I realized, maybe the scene inside the slow globe isn't dark and gloomy, maybe it's the glass that allows me to see the inside. Maybe......
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