Catcher in the Rye
...round-nobody big, I mean-except me. And I’m standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if they’re running and they don’t look where they’re going have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That’s all I’d do all day. I’d just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it’s crazy, but that’s the only thing I’d really like to be. I know its crazy.” (173) The reason that this passage caught my eye is because it is the title of the book and also because it symbolizes that growing up isn’t all it’s cut out to be. I think that Holden is trying to protect kids from growing up and also wants them to be ...