Re: First Catcher memories?

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In a message dated 97-11-26 04:50:11 EST, you write:

<< The readers are the children playing on the cliff.  Holden/Slainger wants
to
 warn the children/readers, but they can't. The book tries to catch you so
you
 don't fall, but in the end you fall anyway. And that's the point.  There
will
 always be a "fuck you" sign, no matter how many you try to erase. 
 
 A happy ending takes away the moral and The Point, which is a lot more
 important than plot or characters. 
  >>

but aren't you also missing that Holden himself had to be caught?  That he
was, in fact, the Only one who was in danger of going over a cliff--the way
he intended to Completely distance himself from human society.  He fashioned
himself to be The Catcher in the Rye, but he was in need of being caught.
 And the only truly authentic person in the book, his little sister, the one
who showed up his participation in adult hypocrisy, was the one who did the
catching...

Jim

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