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Death in //Catcher in the Rye// is a huge focus point. Holden loses his brother and can’t face his death with others, so it makes him want to become the “catcher.”He wants to save the ones who might fall off the cliff into the same life he has. Death seems to have a huge impact on Holden's life, and it is constantly changing his view on life. Holden has experienced death in his family; he has faced it alone, and wants to be a person in the world to protect people from ever having to go through it.

Holden still faces the depression of loosing his brother Allie. Allie was Holden’s younger brother who died of cancer. The two boys were very close so when Allie died Holden was devastated to a point where he was violent and broke windows. Holden has still not accepted that Allie is really gone because he still acts like he is around. “ Then I started doing something else. Every time I’d get to the end of a block I’d make believe I was talking to my brother Allie. I’d say to him “ Allie, don’t let me disappear. Please Allie” (page 198 Salinger) Talking about Allie’s death is a very sensitive topic to Holden. Losing Allie hurt Holden permanently and because of this Holden is too afraid to get close to anyone so he walks on in life alone.

Holden had to learn how to act like an adult at a young age. Having to face his brother’s death was really hard on him. Facing everything alone, not wanting to talk to anyone about death. Holden puts himself in a situation in is mind where he is killing someone. He often thinks about dying, getting shot, dying of pneumonia on a park bench.” About halfway to the bathroom, I sort of started pretending I had a bullet in my gut”(Salinger 104). Holden feels that he can only share his thoughts with his younger sister Phoebe. He feels that if he dies one day soon Phoebe wouldn’t be able to come to his funeral because she is way to young, but there would be millions of jerks and phonies there. “Having to face a death of someone close to you, keeping all your real thoughts locked up inside and covering it up with a smile.”

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Holden’s fantasy job is to become the “catcher in the rye.” He wants to protect people from ever losing that special person (Salinger 73). Becoming the “catcher in the rye” he is trying to protect people from having to face the sadness and having to go down the same path Holden walks. Holden wants to keep people in a safe bubble, and make sure that they won’t have to experience the misery when losing someone. He also doesn’t want to face depression ever again, so by not getting close to anyone, it allows him to accept the way his life is. He can keep to himself and not have that horrible feeling when he knows someone leaves his life.======

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Death as we learned is a important factor in Holden's life, bringing him down new roads. He tries to face death by talking to others, but no one has the same special connection he had with Allie, other than his sister Phoebe. He mostly wants to move along alone, not having to show what he really feels and ignore anyone who wants to get close to him. He also wants to protect people from having to deal with death, like he did. Facing his problems, or confronting his fears are probably some of the hardest things he has to do, so he runs away and messes up parts of his life that are important. By doing so it brings him to meet new people and understand that it is okay to really show what you feel inside, even when he thinks the world has left him alone.======