Holden

The main character in The Catcher In The Rye is names Holden. Holden has a very interesting view on life. For example, his view when he went to the museum really interested me (Salinger 122).

He thought about how nothing ever changed in the museum. When you would go there, you would see things like Indians weaving a blanket like he saw. Overtime you would visit multiple times, but nothing ever changed. The Indian would always be weaving the blanket, and the people in the boat would always be paddling. Their facial expressions would never change. They were just statues, but they looked so real.

Although they never changed a bit, the people in the museum were always changing. I would go to the museum as a little girl and look at all the statues. Going back, they are exactly the same. I am the one who has changed. I have changed physically and emotionally. Before I was amazed and a little scared, and now I am not too impressed and even sometimes bored. It’s the exact same thing that I’m looking at. The only thing that has changed is me. It is amazing how a person could feel two completely different things about the exact same thing just because you are at a different part in your life.

Holden explained this very well. Salinger wrote, “Then a funny thing happened. When I got to the museum, all of a sudden I wouldn’t have gone inside for a million bucks.” He feels the exact same way that I do. He used to love the museum, and now he has no interest for it at all. He actually does not want to even think about going in the museum. I am sure he is exaggerating on the money part, because I know that if I was offered that much money, I would live in a museum. But you catch the drift.

I just think it is so interesting how this works. Holden really makes you think about things that you would not think about normally. It is really an amazing thing.