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CATHER RYE

Stradlater said, but I knew he probably wouldn't... Ask her if she still keeps all her
kings in the back row. Okay, Stradlater said, but I knew he wouldn't. (p.33-34) This is
seen again when he doesn't trust Stradlater to stop his advances of Jane in the case that
she says no. Holden gives up his faith in people to trust him when he boards a bus
holding a snowball. The driver refuses to believe that Holden won't throw the snowball so
he draws the conclusion that People never believe you. (p.37). He is also always placing
labels upon people as being phonies which gives the reader the idea that Holden thinks
that others are materialistic. Holdens attempts to protect the innocence in the world is
another early sign of his deteriorating state. When Holden goes to Pheobe's school to
deliver his note he sees some swearing of the wall which he says drove me damn near crazy
(p.201). He wipes the words from the wall in an attempt to prevent the inevitable from
occuring, leading the reader to believe that he may experience some mental unstability in
the future. Eventually he comes to the realization that he can't rub all the profanity
away himself. Another example of Holden's attempt to shelter innocence is the fact that
he never does call Jane, possibly for fear that she will scar his memories of her as an
innocent child. The title of this novel presents this theme to the reader in that Holden
wants to be the catcher in the rye (p. ) so he can catch all of the children that sway to
close to the edge of a cliff in thier play. Perhaps the most obvious example of
foreshadowing in the novel occurs when his parents come close to having him
phsycoanalyzed and all (p.39) when he breaks all the windows in the garage. Throughout
the novel he refers to himself as a madman (p.79) which gives the reader the idea that he
sees himself as having a sort of mental problem. These two peices of evidence alone
present a fairly firm idea of what will happen to Holden towards the end of the story.
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