The Catcher and the Rye
Topic a.) Catcher in the Rye Essay
The fantasy and the desire of a teenage boy lost from reality
In this essay I will explain a quote which is linked to the title as well as to the main character Holden Caulifield’s desires and in turn the themes that are in the book which also represent the quote. “The Catcher in the
Rye” is an important saying that will tie the book together.
Holden is a boy that is depressed, sick and he is really confused about his life. The one person he always wants to see and spends most of the book trying to see this person which is his sister Phoebe. He manages to sneak into his parent’s apartment and see Phoebe where she asks what he wants to be, what he wants to do with his life and he comes up with a ridicules fantasy, a fantasy that has to do with poem written by
Robert Burns and the title of the book. Phoebe on the other hand understands that growing up is necessary and she also understands
Holden’s refusal to mature and accept the outside world.
The title of the book is called “The Catcher in the Rye”, it’s based on a quote in the novel which is “I keep picturing all these little kids playing 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 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. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d like to be. I know it’s crazy.”
(Salinger 2010:179-180).The quote is made from the poem by Robert
Burns this quote shows the desire and themes in the novel.
Holden which has already revealed his fantasy and his greatest desire of being a catcher in the rye and the fantasy makes sense because we know that Holden likes to retreat into his own
The fantasy and the desire of a teenage boy lost from reality
In this essay I will explain a quote which is linked to the title as well as to the main character Holden Caulifield’s desires and in turn the themes that are in the book which also represent the quote. “The Catcher in the
Rye” is an important saying that will tie the book together.
Holden is a boy that is depressed, sick and he is really confused about his life. The one person he always wants to see and spends most of the book trying to see this person which is his sister Phoebe. He manages to sneak into his parent’s apartment and see Phoebe where she asks what he wants to be, what he wants to do with his life and he comes up with a ridicules fantasy, a fantasy that has to do with poem written by
Robert Burns and the title of the book. Phoebe on the other hand understands that growing up is necessary and she also understands
Holden’s refusal to mature and accept the outside world.
The title of the book is called “The Catcher in the Rye”, it’s based on a quote in the novel which is “I keep picturing all these little kids playing 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 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. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d like to be. I know it’s crazy.”
(Salinger 2010:179-180).The quote is made from the poem by Robert
Burns this quote shows the desire and themes in the novel.
Holden which has already revealed his fantasy and his greatest desire of being a catcher in the rye and the fantasy makes sense because we know that Holden likes to retreat into his own