Holden as a Christ Figure
Chrissy Glembocki (chrissy@cpmcrd.med.columbia.edu)
Tue, 23 Dec 1997 10:24:34 -0500
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?