Catcher in the rye
Phoniness is an often talked about and repeated word in the novel “Catcher in the rye”. ... Holden loves the innocence and honesty within children, this later helps to explain his fantasy to be the catcher in the rye. ... Holden’s fantasy about the catcher in the rye illustrates these two worlds very well. Holden imagines childhood as a field of rye perched on a cliff where children are free to play; adult hood for the children of this world, is like the fatal fall over the edge of the cliff. Holden fantasises about being the catcher, he wants to save the children from adulthood or in other words from becoming phonies.