Catcher In The Rye Ending Analysis

The last part of The Catcher in the Rye details Holden returning to Grand Central Station and spending the night sleeping on a park bench. Holden then awakes and watches the children and walks around, each time feeling as if he will simply disappear from reality. He continually calls his dead brother, Allie, to allow him to make it to the other side. He then goes to his younger sister Phoebe’s school and writes her a note telling her to meet him at the Museum of Art so that he can return her money. As he wanders around, he becomes distressed even more to see the words “F*ck You” drawn on the wall. When Phoebe arrives she begs Holden to take her with him. Holden refuses, and she is visibly upset, she doesn’t offer to return his hunting hat. Instead, they offer …show more content…
It showed a young boy’s struggle with isolation and loneliness, his frivolous attempts to fill the void, and finally a seemingly resolved state in which he looks forward to the future. I would say that many teenager’s feel this way, and that unless they are intervened and given therapy it can have huge consequences on their future. These feelings are dangerous, and they can’t be rationalized. They are exacerbated by over-thinking, and many people are guilty of this unhealthy habit. At any rate, the final message of the novel was that Holden experienced all these things first-hand and that they seriously impacted him. He desires to “catch the kids lost in the rye”, something that was not done for him. He thinks that if he went down this horrible path and hated it, maybe he could prevent others from doing the same. This noble cause also shows Holden’s true nature to me, he is not a coward or a loser. My final thoughts on this book were: enjoyment, comprehension of the true message, and possibly look back on it sometime in the future. Overall an excellent