TASK FOUR: a) Please analyize the first quote, and explain why it is so important to novel. What is Holden really saying? What is this dream telling you about his real fears? b) After part A. take a look at the second quote that I have provided. We haven’t really talked about this quote in class- so I want you to tell me why it is so important. What is Holden saying? Is he really talking about the museum... or is he saying something else? c) Please go through the book and find another quote that you seem to have found meaning for. Tell me why it is important to the novel. How does this contribute to the overall meaning of The Catcher in the Rye?
In this section I will provide you with two quotes in which I feel are VERY important.  Follow the task directions below once you have read and recognized these quotes.
"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be." - TCATR (p.173) Tell me about it... 1. "The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. . . . Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you." - TCATR (p.121) 2.
 
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