D. Holden’s Journey from Pennsylvania to New York: From Adolescence to Adulthood
Holden stays three days in the New York City and meets different people and as an urban picaro he is challenged by a forcible environment of a metropolitan. This metropolitan has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world and stays for competition, capitalism, commerce and everything else that Holden hates. At the time he arrives to the city Holden is neither a child anymore nor an adult. This complex inner world of Holden shows the raging atmosphere of the modern world and it’s human. For example, Holden’s first concern when he comes and takes a taxi to the hotel becomes the ducks in the Central Park. He …show more content…
Throughout the book Holden tries to find out important parts of life in society however he understands that nobody wants to pull people out of this chaos. And this is why when Phoebe asks Holden what he wants to do with his life, Holden tells Phoebe that he would like to be a “catcher in the rye”. Holden thinks himself on a field of rye where a lot of children playing around the edge of a cliff. He envisions that he would catch them if they go over the cliff. The children who are playing around the edge of a cliff represent innocence and what lies below the cliff represents the impurity of life that many people have fallen. Holden’s dream of becoming a “catcher in the rye” shows that he wishes to preserve the children from the phony adult world in which people have been turned to senseless and blind creatures by the social norms. Even if he realizes that he would grow up anyway, Holden does not want to grow up. When he walks in the Museum of Natural History Holden states that he likes museum’s displays because they are frozen and unchanging. The museum represents the world Holden wishes he could live in, it is like a world of his “catcher in the rye” fantasy, a world
Holden stays three days in the New York City and meets different people and as an urban picaro he is challenged by a forcible environment of a metropolitan. This metropolitan has been called both the most economically powerful city and the leading financial center of the world and stays for competition, capitalism, commerce and everything else that Holden hates. At the time he arrives to the city Holden is neither a child anymore nor an adult. This complex inner world of Holden shows the raging atmosphere of the modern world and it’s human. For example, Holden’s first concern when he comes and takes a taxi to the hotel becomes the ducks in the Central Park. He …show more content…
Throughout the book Holden tries to find out important parts of life in society however he understands that nobody wants to pull people out of this chaos. And this is why when Phoebe asks Holden what he wants to do with his life, Holden tells Phoebe that he would like to be a “catcher in the rye”. Holden thinks himself on a field of rye where a lot of children playing around the edge of a cliff. He envisions that he would catch them if they go over the cliff. The children who are playing around the edge of a cliff represent innocence and what lies below the cliff represents the impurity of life that many people have fallen. Holden’s dream of becoming a “catcher in the rye” shows that he wishes to preserve the children from the phony adult world in which people have been turned to senseless and blind creatures by the social norms. Even if he realizes that he would grow up anyway, Holden does not want to grow up. When he walks in the Museum of Natural History Holden states that he likes museum’s displays because they are frozen and unchanging. The museum represents the world Holden wishes he could live in, it is like a world of his “catcher in the rye” fantasy, a world