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?
>