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trying to find their own identity or even make it up. This setting is significant to Catcher and the Rye because this identity search makes up for the fact that he sees everyone as phonies. In search of their identity they are trying to be people whom they are not. Also, there s all these movements and changes people are putting themselves through, trying to change their living, while Holden is all about staying the same. 3. The Catcher in the Rye is the only thing Holden wants to be when he grows up, if he had the choice. Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody s around nobody big. I mean except me. And I m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do. I have to catch everybody

if they start to go over the cliff I mean if they re running and they don t look where they re going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That s all I d do all day. I d just be the catcher in the rye and all (page 173). What s he s doing is trying to save all these little kids from growing up and falling off the cliff into adulthood. He s scared for them and wants them forever to stay a child and enjoy the simple life of romping through the rye fields. Because he s already realized he can t save himself anymore, he wants to help all others. 4. Phoebe and Allie have both greatly influenced Holden s life because they are the only two people in his life he really loves, everyone else he considers a bunch of phonies . He portrays Allie as a basically flawless human being

and even though has passed away, he still lives on in Holden s life. He places Allie on a pedestal, and regularly talks to him out loud. Phoebe is his pride and joy and respects her in every way. He sees them with a perfect life and envies their childhood. His joy comes out of his memories and reminisces with the past when he used to play with them, which he always does. Everything he encounters, he compares and contrasts it with his two younger siblings. 5. Stradler was Holden s roommate while he was still going to school at Penacy Prep. He was a pretty friendly guy, in a partly phony kind of way. He spends much time fixing himself up to look good because he is madly in love with himself. As Holden was pointing out, on the outside Stradler looks like a neat, clean, and organized

guy, but he s secretly a slob. You should ve seen the razor he shaved himself with. It was always rusty as hell and full of lather and hairs and crap. He never cleaned it or anything. He always looked good when he was finished fixing himself up, but he was a secret slob anyway, if you knew him the way I did. I think the roommates in his dorm had a pretty big impact on the outcome of Holden s life. The few boys he conversed with in his dorm represented how society was to Holden. For example, he not only knew how people thought of old Stradler, but he also knew who and what he really was and was like. I think this consequently changed Holden s view on things and made it easier to recognize the many phonies. Part two: 1. Holden hates change, he loves for things to stay the same, The

best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was As a little kid in elemetary school. He went to this museum every Saturday for fieldtrips, now, a number of years later, everything remained the same. He was glad to know that even though he was growing older and going through unfortunate transformations, his childhood life and memories was stabile. 2. She was extremely depressing to her because Holden finds out that this prostitute he invites to his room is about the same age as he is, still really young and she has this kind of job. Her green dress hanging in the closet also depresses him because he pictures her going into the store and buying it. With everyone not knowing she was prostitute, and the salesman thinking he s just selling this

dress to a regular girl. He doesn t explain why this depresses him, but it just does. 3. Mr. Antolini hands him this quote written on a piece of paper. He tells Holden that he s trying to die nobly for an unworthy cause. This is true too; Holden is looking for something his own environment couldn t supply him with. Or, he thought it couldn t, so he gave up looking or trying, without even really getting started. The two main opposite conditions in this quote isn t immature and mature, or nobly and humbly, but living and dying. 4. Holden is in this museum, the mummy section, and he s standing around all the tombs. He oddly likes it there and describes it nice and peaceful , then all of a sudden he turns to see scribbles on the wall in red crayon that says, Fuck You . The quote on