Every time I thought about it, I felt like jumping out the window" (Salinger 55). "It just drove me stark staring mad when I thought about and Stradlater parked somewhere in that fat-assed Ed Banky’s car. He decides to pack the snow tighter, trying to preserve it as he does with innocence in the novel. Holden doesn't want to disturb the blanket of snow covering the street by throwing the snowball.
Here, the snow is a symbol for purity and innocence. All I did was close the window and walk around the room with the snowball, packing it harder" (Salinger 41 & 42). Then I started to throw it at a hydrant, but that looked too nice and white, too. At a car that was parked across the street. Chapter 5-8: -"I went over to my window and opened it and packed a snowball with my bare hands.I started to throw it. This shows how Holden wonders what happens when someone becomes an adult- does it happen to them, or is there something you do? However, he is afraid to ask this directly, or doesn't even consciously realize this is what he's truly wondering. Holden asks this question multiple times throughout the novel, to himself in this instance and to random people he meets in NYC. Or if they just flew away" (Salinger 16). I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. "I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. The mom seems to not pay as much attention to Holden as she does grieving Allie or on Phoebe, as shown in little tidbits Holden says, like, "My mother gets very hysterical" (Salinger 58) and later, "All mothers are slightly insane" (Salinger 62). He also shows this desire in chapter three when pretending to become blind and calling out, not for help, but for his mother.
Just before this on the page he says, "Everybody says that, especially my father". People never notice anything" (Salinger 12). This quote shows Holden's wish to be noticed, namely by his parents. Chapter 1-4: -"Sometimes I act a lot older than I am-I really do-but people never notice it.
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