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Unreachable dreams, an important theme in Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye"
Title: Unreachable dreams, an important theme in Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye"
Category: Literature / English
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Unreachable dreams, an important theme in Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye"
Many people find that their dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield realizes this in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his psychiatrist. At first, Holden sounds like a typical, misguided teenager, rebellious towards his parents, angry with his teachers, and flunking out of school. However, as his story progresses, it becomes clear that Holden is indeed motivated, just not …showed first 75 words of 1061 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1061 total…know what will happen in the future: "A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they have here, keeps asking me if I'm going to apply myself when I go back to school next September. It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean how do you know what you're going to do till you do it?" (213). Holden now knows that he must live life by the moment and not with quixotic ideals.
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