Holden's curiosity about the ducks in Central Park relates to his own adulthood insecurities. Just as the ducks face the hard times of winter, Holden is at the peak of his teen-aged years, just about to go on to the hard times of adulthood. Holden asks the taxi driver about the ducks: "I mean does someone come around in a truck or something and take them away, or do they fly away by themselves-go south or something"(82). Holden's questions of what the ducks do in the winter foreshadow Holden's own plans. Holden wants to know if they either fly away to the south to escape the coldness and the hardships of winter like the way Holden wants to move to the west to get away from the phonies and escape the hardships of adulthood. Or if they are dependent on a parental figu

Holden Caulfield lives a life of fear trying to run away from something he can't run away from. Although Holden may sound like a wacko to some people, we can't blame him for disliking someone that he feels are phony because, after all, a part of him is created by us.

re such as the truck that comes to their rescue and takes them away similar to the way Holden wants to stay a child and dependent. Also the idea that the ducks are saved by a truck suggests Holden wanting to be the Catcher in the Rye, saving children from the hardship of adulthood. The ducks, in whatever way, avoid the coldness and hardships of winter and are nowhere to be found during this time. This symbolizes Holden wanting to avoid adulthood and go away to some place where he won't have to face the problems of being an adult.

The fish isn't the only thing that Holden and the taxi driver have a trouble agreeing upon. Holden also has a hard time agreeing with the fact that when the lagoon freezes, the fish live right in the ice. When Holden asks the taxi driver where the fish goes, he responds: "What the hell-aya mean what do they do? They stay right where they are, for Chrissake"(82). However, Holden has a hard time understanding what the taxi driver is saying. He's response to the taxi driver's comments is, "They can't just ignore the ice. They can't just ignore it"(82), to which the taxi responds by saying, "Who's ignoring it? Nobody's ignoring it!"(82). For most teenagers, the transition into adulthood, represented by the ice, is generally smoot

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