I was looking through my old notebook from Senior Year English class in high School and I came across something strange. My teacher had provoked a discussion about Holden as a Christ figure. I went to a Catholic school and it was around Christmas time when I had studied Catcher for the fourth time. He suggested that Holden wanted to be like Christ by choosing as a career a catcher in a rye field. Christ on the cross held his arms out as would Holden to catch the falling children in the field. Does anyone see the similarity between the two?