somethings just stay the same...

"The best thing though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was...the only thing that would be different was you...certain things should stay that way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and leave just them alone."
These few pages, these few lines, give away some of the most of Holden, I've seen throughout the entire book.
That museum represented and meant so much to him, his childhood, his memories, his growth, and his mind. It seems as though Holden's life has been going to awry, everything is so gosh darn awful for him, but not in this museum. Time is slipping away from him with every move he makes, just like the rest of us. Every school he is kicked out of, he looses another half a year in wasted effort, or wasted time. Every death he encounters, every loss of someone close, and he gains ten years in age, looses ten years of childhood. Every bar he goes to he tries to drink, party, or otherwise lift the things that are getting him down from his mind. Every age he fakes, every smoke he takes, he wades further into this unknown pool of "adulthood" and away from the safe shores of his childhood. He wishes he could go back, at least I believe that he does. That someone from back there would throw him that life preserver, and tow him back to land. He's over his head, and his clothes are getting too heavy and water logged for him to tread any longer. It won't be long...
What would Holden's museum look like? The museum of Holden's childhood, the place he could go, and see all that used to be, in shinny glass cases, waiting to be unlatched and walked back into. Preserved, just like it should be, just like it was. Instead of painted Indians, and flying birds, would we see a writing Allie, and a happy Holden? What would we see?
He says, the only thing that would change, would be you...and it's time to leave school, but I'll try to re-gain my thought LATER!!!
well...there goes my thought process, this is all thats comming out on this topic!
These few pages, these few lines, describe Holden in the most fundamental way :