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I want to revive this discussion with a question you've proabably all considered:
What do you think happened to Holden after the novel?
I like to think he found some kind of harmony and sense in his world. Other people on the net say his fall didn't end, and he was destined for the bottom.
hmmm... I imagine him working at McDonalds for the rest of his life.... just because that is his sort of luck.
I imagine him surviving life until he becomes one of those increadibly bitter old nursing home men.
You think his talk with Mr. Antolini meant absolutely nothing? I'm sure some of what he said stuck to him. Now I'm starting to think he turned out as a lonely old hobo.
I used to think that he'd straighten up and find some consolation in some people he'd eventually meet and fit in with. Finally finish school, maybe.
I bet he did something good.
I don't think he did. I saw the book more as a warning. Like, "Don't become bitter and unhappy like Holden."
No! I saw it like 'You can overcome bitterness and unhappiness' Holden, at the end, doesn't he go back to school? And he talks about how nice it is, sitting there watching Phoebe, like it all worked out.
I had a test today, and I couldn't stop thinking about catcher because '**** YOU ****' was written on the desk in big, fat letters.
I can't see it written and not think about Holden desperately trying to remove it.
I tried to rub off the biro, but it was kind of carved into the wood.
read it some yrs back .. great read .. esp if you are a high school kid ... the book would touch you (not that it would touch others!)
you mean wouldn't right?
wow, i just finished this book 2 weeks ago.
your point?
fayefaye's point?
I read it in 10th grade and hated its guts. Although my friends and I still call each other 'sexy moronic bastards.' Holden was a hypocrite; he didn't like phonies, but he always put on a fake face for everyone. He's an example of one of those hypothetical young men who think they are Napoleons but are actually quite ordinary, to allude to Crime and Punishment.
I don't think he would actually go through with suicide, because his unhappiness was just more like narcissistic bitterness. He's gonna live a bitter, unfulfilled, perfectly ordinary life.