Symbolism And Imagery In The Catcher In The Rye
Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is the story of a teenager who doesn’t “fit in society’s mold.” After getting kicked out of his prestigious school, he headed to New York City to live an independent life for a while, which ends up being an emotional roller coaster full of depression, isolation and alcohol abuse. The passage in pages 154-155 prove, using symbolism and imagery that the protagonist is both transitioning from a child into an adult and obsessed with death. First of all, the presence of symbolism in the extract helps the reader further understand the transition that Holden is going through, he’s losing his youth and innocence to become an adult. When he reaches the pond, he says that it’s “partly frozen and partly not frozen”