"She just kills me..."
obviously not in a bad or literal way! Holden really loves his sister, or feels some brotherly connection towards her. She just kills him, and that's why he doens't want anything to kill her.
Not in a way where someone is going to come at her with a dagger, but in a more continual sense. Because Phoebe is this small, young, and vulnerable, Holden feels like her needs to protect her. Not just her, Holden seems to have put this responsibility on himself, this job, the he must do. He needs to protect these innocent young minds and bodies, from all the phoniness of the world ready to unhinge it's giant jaw and swallow them whole, as soon as they dare step into the world! He still clings to this childhood part of him. It seemed to be this place where there were no phonies, no troubles, no one to fail or destroy. He has to protect those kids, he has to keep them in those little glass cases in the museum. They are running, and about to run out of the safe, fruitful pastures of childhood, and fall off the cliff, into the unpredictable airs of adult hood. He has to catch them, he has to be the catcher in the rye...
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Does he want to stop them grom growing up? I mean does he think he can keep them innocent and stop them from seeing the truth?
ReplyDeleteDUDE i did Holden and Febea too! If you're wondering why I spelled it that way, read my freakin blog why don't cha. Neway. I don't really like Febea. She's a jerk. But I agree with what you're saying, young J.
ReplyDeleteYou are right...Holden is letting the innocence of childhood weigh him down like a ton of bricks. Instead of trying to embrace his innocence while growing up, he is all too focused on the bad or 'phoniness' of the world around him. Poor Holden...I'm interested to see why Sarah thinks Phoebe is such a jerk?!?!
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