f...I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all" (173). By saying this Holden it proves that Holden wants people to stay innocent and never fall off of the cliff of corruption. The only times when you see Holden slightly happy in this book is when he sees someone that reflects an innocent. He sees it in two nuns and a small boy walking on the side of the street. After he talks to the nuns he narrates to the reader "I said I enjoyed talking to them a lot too. I meant it too" (112). This becomes a dependency and almost an obsession. He looks for them everywhere he goes and tries to hold on to the innocence he sees in them. A small boy on the side of the street was singing the song catcher in the rye and Holden relates by saying, "It made me feel not so depressed anymore" (115). Holden also sees the same thing in Phoebe. She seems to be the only person he relates to in the book. He tells her how he feels and what happened to him. If hadn't seen that in her, he p

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