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Society The classroom for Behavior

derly fashion closely behind his parents. Near the end of the paragraph, Holden tells how seeing the child singing on the street made him feel better and not quite as depressed. The fact that it made Holden feel happy is because this innocence and natural behavior is accepted, often times praised, and many times enjoyed in little children. It shows their creativity in the ability that they can make up games to play by themselves or make up an imaginary friend, and Holden is the only character in the novel that intuitively recognizes this.Throughout every child’s life most individuals have been on a merry-go-round and most individuals have enjoyed their ride on it. Well near the end of the novel, Holden enjoys Phoebe’s ride on the merry-go-round as much as she does. “I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth.”(213) The reason for Holden’s joyfulness was the ability to watch his wise and beloved sister go from anger towards him to content. He watched her innocence prevail and it caused him to cry. Holden commented, “..she looked so damn nice, the way she kept going around and around, in her blue coat and all. God, I wish you could’ve been there.”(213) Again Holden is one of the few people in the novel to distinguish this innocence and natural behavior. The fact that people are forced to curb their natural behaviors in today’s society is a reason that The Catcher in the Rye is still a classic and always will be.Allie and Phoebe are two perfect examples for Salinger’s commentary on how natural innocence and behavior are taught to be bad things. Phoebe, the child who is wise beyond her years, is already at the stage where she has learned that social mores are taught to kids to encourage the ideas of proper socialization. Holden, who is older than Pho...

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