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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