He is in an elevator and is confronted by a pimp the pimp offers to give him a prostitute for five dollars. He speaks about adulthood, "going to get an office job and make a lot of money like the rest of the phonies." Although Holden tries to do grown up things, he still wants to be a kid. Holden attempted to wipe off some words from the wall, but he found out it was useless, he said, "If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn't rub out even half the signs in the world. Then, it would be just like Holden not doing his job, as in his vision of him saving the kids that were going to fall off the cliff. Holden couldn't stand the idea of Phoebe or her friend seeing the writing on the wall, they would wonder what it meant, and some dirty kid would tell them. He saw swear words on the walls, that made him crazy inside. Another major moment of his protection is when he went to Phoebe's elementary school to talk to her before he had to leave. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliffI have to catch everybody if they go over the cliffI'd just be the catcher in the rye" Holden wants to save these little kids, to protect their innocence, not from falling from a cliff, but from the world. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big. Holden says, "I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. The ones that he loves most, are those who are younger to him, they are innocent, and untouched by society's truths. Holden cannot accept the loss of innocence as a step into the growing up process. He has trouble acknowledging the death of his brother. After the brief moment of reminiscing, Holden irritates Phoebe by saying, "I like Allie". Another thing that haunts Holden is the fact that during roll call in class, his last name always is called after Castles' last name. Castle was a boy who Holden had lent his sweater to, Castle died unfortunately by being thrown out of a window wearing Holden's sweater. Phoebe, his younger sister, is putting him on the spot by asking him what he likes, but Holden can only think of two nuns and a boy, James W.
Towards the end of the book, Holden proves again that he can't cope with death. The mitt has additional meaning and significance for Holden because Allie had written poetry, which Holden reads, from the baseball mitt. In order to hold on to his brother and to minimize the pain of his loss, Holden brings Allie's baseball mitt along with him where ever he goes. From Holden's thoughts, it is obvious that he loves and misses Allie.
Throughout the novel, Holden dwells on Allies' death.
#The catcher in the rye themes windows#
Holden had punched and broke all the windows in the garage out of anger he says that his hands still hurt from the incident. Holden has a near obsession with the death of his younger brother Allie, who died at age thirteen due to leukemia. The most important theme developed by Salinger is Holden's problem of dealing with change he has trouble dealing with death, he refuses to accept children's loss of innocence as a necessary step in the growing-up process, and has difficulties with growing up. Salinger's initiation novel, The Catcher In The Rye, describes the adventures of 16-year old Holden Caulfield, the protagonist and first person narrator, who refuses to grow up and enter manhood. In a novel, the theme is the insight of real life.
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