Success

1. Success

2. Failure

3. I felt so damn happy all of sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth. I don't know why. Pg.213

4. Quotes

5. I’m going to apply myself when I go back to school. . . I think I am Pg.213

6. As a matter of fact, I’m the only dumb one in the family Pg.67

7. Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. Pg.65

8. Right after being expelled, Holden tells the reader that he believes himself to be a useless member of society. Yet he is not actual dumb.

9. Holden thinks that by seeing his sister go around and around on the merry-go-round, that she will be perpetualy innocent. Which was his goal.

10. Holden knows that he has a problem, yet he chooses to ignore it. So now that he is at least confronting it he an get over it.

11. Whenever Holden sees somthing being preserved, such as childhood innocence, he always wants to protect it. To try and root it in place.

12. Well. . . they'll be pretty irritated about it," I said. "They really will. This is about the fourth school I've gone to." I shook my head. I shake my head quite a lot. "Boy!" I said. I also say "Boy!" quite a lot. Pg.90

13. Holden keeps being booted from schools yet never really applys himself.

14. Quotes

15. I hated hated like hell for her to know i got the ax again. Pg.107

16. Other

17. quotes

18. Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right--I’ll admit that. But if you are on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Pg.8

19. If you had a million years to do it in, you couldn’t rub out even half the f-u signs in the world Pg.202

20. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice Pg.43

21. Holden believes himself to be unable to do anything, yet can do most things he apply's himself to.

22. Holden feels that no matter what he does he is unable to protect the innocence of children. Even though he is repeatedly trying to shelter his sister.

23. After everything that has happened Holden is worried more about telling Phoebe that he has been expelled. Than being expelled itself.

24. Holden admits that he is not apathetic about everything. there are some things he cares about.

25. One of the first thing Holden complains about is is perception of life. That unless you put everything you got into one thing you are going nowhere.

26. If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more. Pg.128

27. One reason Holden does not like to apply himself is that he feels that he will start to show off and be worse because of it.