The Cather in the Rye really sucked me in and got me thinking about a lot. The book is about teenager Holden Caulfield and his experiences growing up and maturing in New York before he decides to go home. Initially the book started out kind of slow but quickly picked up and I had a hard time putting it down.
The Catcher in the Rye quickly caught my attention and dragged me in. In the second chapter of the book while Holden is talking to his history teacher Mr. Spencer about how life is just a game, Holden states “Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hotshots are, then it’s a game, all right I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hotshots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No …show more content…
One of these items that plays a big role in the book is Holden’s red hunting hat. Where ever he goes he always has his hat. In chapter six of the book, after Holden gets in a fight he loses his hat. Holden says, “I couldn’t find my goddam hunting hat anywhere. Finally I found it. It was under the bed. I put it on, and turned the old peak around the back, the way I liked it” (Salinger 46). Holden’s hat is one of the few things that makes him feel comfortable and without it he feels empty. It is one way for him to express himself. Another symbol that is seen in the book a few times is the ducks in the park. Multiple times he asks a cab driver “by any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over?” (Salinger 60). They symbolize a form of hope for Holden. They leave during the winter but they always return back to that park. They also show Holden’s child side. Instead of the thoughts of killing people and sex he is infatuated with the ducks at the pond, which is very childish. The last symbol I found was the Museum that Holden visits. Salinger writes “The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move… Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you” (Salinger 121). Holden found comfort in the fact that the Museum was so consistent in that it would always be the same. Unlike people the museum would never
The Catcher in the Rye quickly caught my attention and dragged me in. In the second chapter of the book while Holden is talking to his history teacher Mr. Spencer about how life is just a game, Holden states “Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hotshots are, then it’s a game, all right I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hotshots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No …show more content…
One of these items that plays a big role in the book is Holden’s red hunting hat. Where ever he goes he always has his hat. In chapter six of the book, after Holden gets in a fight he loses his hat. Holden says, “I couldn’t find my goddam hunting hat anywhere. Finally I found it. It was under the bed. I put it on, and turned the old peak around the back, the way I liked it” (Salinger 46). Holden’s hat is one of the few things that makes him feel comfortable and without it he feels empty. It is one way for him to express himself. Another symbol that is seen in the book a few times is the ducks in the park. Multiple times he asks a cab driver “by any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over?” (Salinger 60). They symbolize a form of hope for Holden. They leave during the winter but they always return back to that park. They also show Holden’s child side. Instead of the thoughts of killing people and sex he is infatuated with the ducks at the pond, which is very childish. The last symbol I found was the Museum that Holden visits. Salinger writes “The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move… Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you” (Salinger 121). Holden found comfort in the fact that the Museum was so consistent in that it would always be the same. Unlike people the museum would never