Re: First Catcher memories?
Matthew_Stevenson@baylor.edu
Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:36:07 -0600
On Sun, 30 Nov 1997 20:38:59 -0500 (EST) NovenA16@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 97-11-26 07:16:43 EST, AntiUtopia@aol.com writes:
>
><< 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... >>
>I don't think that his little sisteris the one did the catching.
i agree, the catcher has to know that the cliff is there, and part of phoebe's
innocence is the naivete which believes the field goes on forever. holden,
however, stands on the brink of that cliff and knows it is there. he may not
succeed in his ambition to be the catcher in the rye, but he certainly has the
qualifications to make the attempt.--matt