Have you read 'The Catcher in The Rye'?

Question

can you give me a reason why Holden Caulfield, the main charecter in the novel is not ready to leave the institution at the end of the book due to his last 2 senetnced: "don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody"

Answer 1

That last sentence shows the reader that Holden still doesn't trust people. Also it shows that if he got out of the institution, he'd probably go back and do everything all over again: in other words, he has no remorse for his actions or beliefs that led him to being the misanthropic character that he is. He still feels the same way about everybody and everything, and if he were to leave the institution at this point, he would probably go and look up all the characters in the book that he said he missed at the end, and he'd just fall back into his own patterns of thinking they were phony and sort of hating them for not thinking like he does.

Answer 2

J. D. Salinger. The Catcher In The Rye.

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Chapter 1

Summary

The novel opens with the first-person narrator, Holden Caulfield, speaking directly to a psychoanalyst or psychologist. Because he has had a complete mental breakdown, Holden has been sent to this "rest home" for treatment. As he talks, his mind frequently wanders and, therefore, his story is often filled with digressions. The first digression is about D.B., Holden�s older brother who is a writer. He feels that D. B. has "sold-out" in his literary career, for he is now in Hollywood writing screenplays, like a "prostitute". More…..

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Good luck.

Kevin, Liverpool, England.

Answer 3

Do your own homework, kid!