“If a body catch a body comin’ thro the rye”. This quote is relevant because it is the song that holden said he wanted to be when grew up. In J. D. Salinger novel Catcher In The Rye is about a kid named Holden Caulfield is about a sixteen year old boy that has trouble with his sex life and also struggle with his life because he had a tragic accident when he was young. This accident was when his brother Allie past away, he had a huge impact in Holden's life because Allies Death mentioned many times in the novel.
Holden doesn’t have a very good sex life, in fact heś still a virgin and he seems to be afraid of losing it. Holden states, ¨You'd be surprised what was going on the other side of the hotel.¨ He explains all these sexual and kinky things people were doing in their hotel rooms. He then says, ¨The trouble was, that kind of junk is sort of fascinating to watch , even if you don't want it to be.¨ (Salinger, 62)Meaning all these disturbances, sexual, perverted actions fascinated him, this proves something is wrong with him. You´d think heś desperate, but he then says that you shouldn't do that stuff to a girl you don´t love, nor a girl you loved because you should like her face and you should take good care of it and not mess with it. …show more content…
Holden says many wonderful things about Allie, Allie was eleven years old when he passed away from leukemia on July 18, 1946. I think that Allie is a huge part of holden because when stradlater ask him to do an English assignment for him holden wrote about his brother “Allie wrote them about it so that he'd have something to read, when he was in the field and nobody was up at bat” (Salinger,
Holden doesn’t have a very good sex life, in fact heś still a virgin and he seems to be afraid of losing it. Holden states, ¨You'd be surprised what was going on the other side of the hotel.¨ He explains all these sexual and kinky things people were doing in their hotel rooms. He then says, ¨The trouble was, that kind of junk is sort of fascinating to watch , even if you don't want it to be.¨ (Salinger, 62)Meaning all these disturbances, sexual, perverted actions fascinated him, this proves something is wrong with him. You´d think heś desperate, but he then says that you shouldn't do that stuff to a girl you don´t love, nor a girl you loved because you should like her face and you should take good care of it and not mess with it. …show more content…
Holden says many wonderful things about Allie, Allie was eleven years old when he passed away from leukemia on July 18, 1946. I think that Allie is a huge part of holden because when stradlater ask him to do an English assignment for him holden wrote about his brother “Allie wrote them about it so that he'd have something to read, when he was in the field and nobody was up at bat” (Salinger,