Sunday, November 15, 2009

The perfect Quote

"The best thing, though. In that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish. Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different woud be you."

This quote is saying that Holden loves going to the museum because it will be the same thing everytime. The same things will be there in the same position doing the same thing they were all along. The only thing that would change is you but not you in a sense of age but your surroundings. Such as the weather or the people you go with or what you are wearing.

I think that it means that Holden likes order. He isn't comfortable with change, and when things are out of order. He has this preset plan of how things should go when, where, and how and once that get's interupted then he wants to bail and not be apart of it. Just like in the bar when he met that girl that knew his borther he wasn't expecting it so he bailed. And when Stradlater didn't like is paper he got pissed and he bailed. When the stripper didn't want to talk to him or hold a conversation he didn't want to be there anymore and he bailed. Things have to go Holdens way to the tee otherwise he doesn't want to be apart of it anymore, he can't deal with it and he needs tog et out. Which is a horrible thing to do he is going to be faced with a lot of situations that he isn't going to like as an adult and he can't just leave all of them because he will never become successful and will never fully grow up.

1 comment:

  1. :/ poor Holden. I feel bad for him; I really wish he maybe had more help as a child- I know it really helps kids to grow up when their parents help them and teach them how to. Obviously this didn't happen.

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