How Does Holden Grow In Catcher In The Rye

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In the book Holden portrays a passive trait by showing plans, needs, dreams, and hope. Holden does not have his own Flock and wants to cultivate his own flock but he can't find it. Ducks in the pond.”I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away” (J.D. Salinger 81-82). The ducks in the passage symbolizes how Holden is struggling with change and growing up. He would like things to stay the same but the ducks show how people should adapt to their environment in order to survive. The ducks also give hope to Holden because the facts state that ducks always leave during winter they always come back when it starts to get warmer, which creates a connection toward Holden. This quote shows …show more content…

Flunked out of many schools and wanted to run away with Sally. "I don't get hardly anything out of anything. I'm in bad shape. I'm in lousy shape” (Salinger 131). Flunking out of school shows that Holden doesn't care because he doesn't try to change or do anything to fix it. After his brother's death he began not try and care because he can't process his feelings about losing his brother. The only way to express his feelings about losing his brother is getting kicked out of school. At the same time Holden is not fitted well into these schools because he's not popular people don't like him and isn't athletic and he is being forced into these school he does not want to go too but he does not have any power to control what he does. In this quote it shows an Unscrupulous Anti-Hero by showing how he is giving revenge to humanity by not trying at all and giving up easily because he knows that his big brother isn't there to protect him and he thinks that no one is there to protect him, so there is no point in trying, but he doesn't see how he is hurting himself by ruining his own life and having a good education and growing …show more content…

Holden is willing to be the catcher in the rye and willing to fall off a cliff. “That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." (Salinger 173). The catcher in the Rye symbolizes how Holden will like to protect the kids from falling from the edge of the cliff and catching them if they were on the verge of falling. Holden would like to catch the children before falling out of innocence into the knowledge of adult world. In this quotes it shows an Unscrupulous character by showing how he is telling and “saving” kids by telling them not to grow up and stopping them from experiencing the real things in life. He does not see how this is affecting him and other children around the world because it's stopping both of them from growing up and changing. Another thing that he is damaging his own life and trying to keep it at his childhood and having no principles that leads to making bad decisions and doubting and stopping yourself from growing up. He feels lonely and isolated and doesn't want to miss his friends. “Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody” (Salinger 214). Holden's fear of losing and trusting people is a big problem toward is social life because he rejects the people that try to go into his

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