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Catcher In The Rye

Why be the Catcher in the Rye if He Can't Catch Himself?
People who grasps important moments in their lives, and remember them, would want those moments to last forever. However, things would gradually change, so those moments would not last forever, similarly, to the character Holden in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. Holden's dilemma is that he wants things to stay the way they are forever and also save the innocent people around him; he realized that it's not possible.
Near the end of the novel, Holden progresses in his resolutions, for all his earlier dilemmas in the story with people, mostly the innocent people. He resolves it by being the "catcher in the rye". He says, "…I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all […] nobody's around—nobody big […] except me […] what I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff […] I have to come out from somewhere and catch them"(173). Holden has......


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