Breaking The Code To The Catcher In The Rye: Literary Reference to "Holden"

[Cosmic]

So i have been reading Self-Reliance: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson as Inspiration for Daily Living

On page 51 it reads:
"Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them is like a dream."

"...You have observed a skillful man reading Virgil. Well, that author is a thousand books to a thousand persons. Take the book into your two hands, and read your eyes out; you will never find what I find."

So is with The Catcher in the Rye.

Open your eyes!

[Cosmic]

How about Salinger's own books as literary references:


"Last Day of the Last Furlough" is a short story written by American writer J. D. Salinger in 1944 and published in the July 15th issue of Saturday Evening Post.[1] It covers the last days of furlough for Babe Gladwaller before he is shipped off to World War II.

"Babe spends most of the time with his little sister, Mattie, until his fellow soldier Vincent Caulfield comes over to spend the evening with them before departing in the morning. In this story, Vincent announces his brother Holden has been reported Missing in Action. Babe and Mattie's relationship mirrors the future relationship between Holden and Phoebe in The Catcher in the Rye.