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Antolini sitting on the floor beside him and touching him. Holden is startled and awakes only to find Mr. Antolini prepares HoldenвЂ™s bed on the couch.

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Antolini prepares himself a series of strong alcoholic drinks and smokes several cigarettes.ДЇighting off sleep вЂњall of a suddenвЂќ and yawning obviously, Mr. Antolini, who is much older than her husband and seemingly in a marriage of convenience, makes them coffee and goes off to bed. In chapter 24, though it is the middle of the night, Antolini invites Holden in and provides him with an understanding ear, some comforting life advice, and a place to sleep. But we are being set up by the author to place our trust in an evil man, just as Holden was misled by Antolini. It is refreshing to read about an adult character that Holden actually likes. Antolini was a friend of HoldenвЂ™s parents, and presumably a trusted man. Prior to this point, which is near the end of the novel, Holden makes no mention of this teacher who had encouraged him in developing his obvious writing skills. Antolini, вЂњthe best teacher I ever had,вЂќ presumably because he isnвЂ™t вЂњphony,вЂќ even though it is very late at night, perhaps near dawn. Antolini, a friend of his parents and a former English teacher at Elkton Hills, one of three prep schools Holden attended, and the one he hates the most - Pency Prep and the Whooton School being the other two.ДЄs HoldenвЂ™s emotional crisis in New York City starts to reach its peak, he suddenly thinks to call Mr. HoldenвЂ™s story is best understood as a long and elaborate tall-tale centered on his relationship with a Mr. His story is a descent into madness, closer to ConradвЂ™s вЂњHeart of DarknessвЂќ in character. Holden Caulfield, on the other hand, winds up in what appears to be a mental hospital, his spirit subdued, perhaps due to the crude psychiatric treatments available in the 1950s. Even in the 1954 movie, вЂњRebel Without a Cause,вЂќ which was inspired, in part, by вЂњCatcher in the Rye,вЂќ James DeanвЂ™s conflicted teen character, Jim Stark, is reconciled back to his family. Candide retires to his farm in America, a sadder, but wiser country gentleman. David marries the woman he should have married all along and lives happily ever after. It is from this outward appearance of Holden Caulfield that we think that this is a coming-of-age novel or teenage rebellion.Д«ut novels of this genre, like вЂњCandideвЂќ and вЂњDavid Copperfield,вЂќ generally end on a happy and reconciled note. He is bothered by changes in his sixteen year-old body, desirous of women but suspicious of their motives, is outwardly homophobic, but fascinated by perverted behavior.

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He is obsessed by innocence, or rather the loss of it, and he doesnвЂ™t know how to deal maturely with adult behaviors. He alternates between moments of great tenderness and insight, and extremely provocative behavior.

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He is angry, cynical, snarky, tearful, raging, full of sexual energy, confused, depressed, and crazy. The character of Holden Caulfield has been interpreted variously, primarily by most as a tale of teenage angst. вЂњCatcherвЂќ is a story of the consequence of child sexual abuse. I was shocked, not because of the narrator HoldenвЂ™s CaulfieldвЂ™s course language, his negativity, or the situations he retells, but by what was left unsaid, the story behind his story that Salinger has woven, like the random patterns on the Nazca Plain of CaulfieldвЂ™s mind that can only be understood when viewed at a very high elevation. I came away from this novel with a very different interpretation of its meaning than when I first read it in English class, oh so long ago. After a span of some 40 years, I recently got around to rereading J.

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