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? >