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Key Metaphors, The Carousel, The Ducks in Central Park Lagoon, Museum of…
Key Metaphors
“...the thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them.”
“Anyway, we kept getting closer and closer to the carousel and you could start to hear that nutty music it always plays. It was playing ‘Oh Marie!’It played that same song about fifty years ago when I was a little kid. That’s one nice thing about the carrousels, they always play the same songs.”
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That’s one nice thing about carousels, they always play the same songs.”
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to the cab driver)”Do you happen to know where the ducks go in wintertime , by any chance?” (chapter 12)
“The lake was partly frozen and partly not frozen. But I didn’t see any ducks around. I walked all around the whole damn lake-I damn near fell in once, in fact- but I didn’t see a single duck. I thought maybe if there were any around, they might be asleep or sth near the edge of the water, near the grass and all. That’s how I nearly fell in. But I couldn’t find any.
Finally I sat down on this bench, where it wasn’t so goddam dark. Boy, I was shivering like a bastard, and the back of my hair, even though I had my hunting hat on, was sort of full of little hunks of ice. That worried me. I thought probably I’d get pneumonia and die. I started picturing millions of jerks coming to my funeral and all…”(chapter 20)
“ I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go. I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away. “
Theme: Authentic versus artificial (or “phony”), innocence, death
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“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move.”
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“He had about two fish right next to the hole, that he'd already caught. Boy, that museum was full of glass cases.”
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- the song is "about a little kid that wouldn't go out of the house because two of her front teeth were out and she was ashamed to".
- the record breaks "into about fifty pieces"
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- “They charged me five bucks for it, because it was so hard to get, but I didn’t care.”
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"After I got across the road, I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed the road"
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“My brother Allie had this left-handed fielder's mitt. He was left handed. The thing that was descriptive about it though, was that he had poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere. In green ink. He wrote them on it so that he'd have something to read when he was in the field and nobody was up to bat. He's dead now.”
“She was the only one, outside my family, that I ever showed Allie’s baseball mitt to, with all the poems written on it.”
Theme: Authentic versus artificial (or “phony”),innocence, death, sadness
“If a body meet a body comin’ through the rye”
“If a body catch a body comin’ through the rye,”
Theme:Authentic versus artificial (or “phony”),innocence, death,sadness,sexual confusion, isolation
-Holden is always saying how he hates phonies. He is always hating on people for that. When he read Phoebe's notebook, he says he could read it forever if he could. Funny thing is that the book just has scribbles and thoughts Phoebe wrote down. It has many things with no sense. Holden loves it because it has not a single phony thing, it is just Phoebe writing down anything she thought about.
It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road.”
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