Friday, November 13, 2009
November 13
In chapter 17 Holden asks Sally to go away with him and live together and maybe even get married. He talks about how he wants to get away from everything and live out in the country. This helped me realize how he hates material things and that's why he calls so many people phony. I think he says because he hates how so many people are so materialistic, but I also think its because he's just running away from his problems and his fear of facing the world.
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I think he is also, in many ways sort of running away from his problems. When Spencer and I analyzed Holden always asking about the ducks today, we decided that he wants to do like the ducks do... when things get bad (like for ducks in winter) he wants to leave and get out of wherever he is (like ducks migrate south). You notice no matter where he is, if things start to go bad he wants out... whether he be talking to old Spencer, or in his dorm room with Stradlater or Ackley.
ReplyDeleteI also think he wants to run away from his problems because he doesn't like the pressure of them. He wants to stay out of conflict unless he is just observing it and not actually apart of it. He likes being the outsider looking in, the observer and not the observie.
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