The Catcher In The Rye: Unreachable Dreams
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Many people find that their dreams are unreachable. Holden Caulfield
realizes this in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells his
story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his
psychiatrist. At first, Holden sounds like a typical, misguided teenager,
rebell ....
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.... to leave early. Before he leaves,
though, he visits his teacher, Mr. Spencer. Mr. Spencer and Holden talk about
his direction in life: “‘Do you feel absolutely no concern for your future,
boy?' ‘Oh, I feel some concern for my future, all right. Sure. Sure, I do.' I
thought about it for a minute. ‘But not too much, I guess,'” (14). After
leaving Pencey, he checks into a hotel where he invites a prostitute up to his
room. He gets cold feet and decides not to have intercourse w ....
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