conflict in the catcher in the rye quotes

Estelle Fletcher, the black artist who sings 'Little Shirley Beans' on the recording that Holden buys for Phoebe, is another adult who gets it right. They are quiet, private, an author's expression of his own truth without concern for reward. D.B.'s short stories fall into the same category. The boy is not trying to please anyone he is merely expressing his passion of the moment. When Holden sees the 6-year-old child marching down the street singing, 'If a body catch a body coming through the rye,' he is uplifted because of the authenticity of the scene. He sees much of life as a conflict between the authentic and the artificial, which is directly related to his attitude toward children and his resistance to the adult world. He is also upset by the profanity he finds carved into the walls at Phoebe’s school, because he sees signs like that as threatening the innocence of children who read them.Holden's aesthetics are entertaining, but they also tell us a good deal about his worldview.

For instance, Holden is concerned with where the ducks from Central Park go in the winter he is legitimately afraid that they don’t have anywhere to go, much like him.

Holden is constantly concerned with things that the rest of society either doesn’t want to think about, or doesn’t care about. Later, as his mental breakdown worsens, he asks Allie not to let him disappear. Holden now tells Allie sometimes to go get his bike and meet them, revealing he has some unresolved guilt and grief about Allie’s death. Holden remembers a time when he should have invited Allie to come out and shoot BB guns with him and Bobby Fallon, but instead, he told him he was too young.

He is also annoyed that Stradlater didn’t like his composition about Allie’s baseball mitt. He thinks Jane is too good for Stradlater, and he’s annoyed that Stradlater won’t tell him what they did on their date. Holden and Stradlater get into a physical fight because Holden is upset that Stradlater took Jane Gallagher out on a date.

Conflict in the catcher in the rye quotes