![]() ![]() When youre feeling very depressed you cant even think. The Catcher in the Rye 195 It always smelled like it was raining outside even if it wasnt and you were in the only nice dry cosy place in the world. Crucially, Holden sees himself as all alone in this endeavor-the only person willing to attempt this feat, or qualified to do so. Quotes catcher in the rye with page numbers. He wishes to stop that passage of time and freeze everyone at a more innocent point in their lives. Everything Holden has observed in his life has told him that his brother Allie and his sister Phoebe are perfect in their childhood innocence, but will become like all of Holden’s despised schoolmates, teachers, and other adults in due time. Holden sees maturity as inherently bad-growing up leads to corruption and phoniness, and finally death. This quote not only gives the novel its title, it explains Holden’s fundamental issue in a beautiful, poetic way. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. 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. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. “Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all.
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