Week 4 blogpost

I think Catcher in the Rye was named that because in the book when Holden says he's the catcher down in the crevasse and when kids fall down there and he catches them and puts them back in the field he is saving them from being phony or fake. He kind of does this throughout the book, well, he tries to anyway. He calls everyone a phony and he wishes that his generation wasn't like this and he tries to save his generation by being the catcher. He tries to save Phoebe by not making her a phony, but he sees that there is starting to be a little phony in her. Also when he sees the eff you on the walls and stuff he was thinking about how some perverse teen tried to make the kids conform to what their actually supposed to be, that's why he is mad about it. Because theyre conforming already. He wants to help kids not conform to the nasty phony way. That's what the catcher is. And the Rye is simply the childhood of them. It's the wonderful simplicity and the wonderful non-conforming world of being a child.