Re: Holden as a Christ Figure
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Tue, 23 Dec 1997 09:05:19 -0700 (MST)
yes, I think holden is a very holy fellow--if you scrape away some of his
adolescent veneer, you will find a person who really cares for others as
well as trying to find his own way, will
On Tue, 23 Dec 1997, Chrissy Glembocki wrote:
>
> 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?
>