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This moment is important because the rain symbolizes clarity and it is the first time that Holden is genuinely happy. Even after he hit rock bottom he is able to be at this place where his happiness is authentic.

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"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. I don't know why. It was just that 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."

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The Carrousel with Phoebe

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This moment is important because it it the moment that Holden realizes that he wants to be "The Catcher in the Rye." Holden wants to preserve the children's youth and innocence and keep them from falling off the cliff which is reality.

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"Anyway, I kept picturing all these little kids playing some game in a 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."

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The Catcher in the Rye

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This moment is very important because it is the first time that Holden opens up and tells someone his feelings. This is very out of character for Holden which shows that he must have been very desperate for him to tell his feelings to someone else.

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"We'll stay in these cabin camps and stuff like that till the dough runs out. Then, when the dough runs out, I could get a job somewhere and we could live somewhere with a brook, and all, later on, we could get married and stuff."

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Sally Date

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This moment Shows how Holden does not do what he wants to and does do what he does not want to. It also shows that he still has morals.

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"I was starting to feel pretty sexy and all, but I was a little nervous anyway. If you want to know the truth, I'm a virgin. I really am. I've had quite a few opportunities to lose my virginity and all, but I've never got around to it yet. Something always happens."

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The Night at the Hotel

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This moment reveals that Holden, although he claims to hate phonies, is a phone himself. It also shows how he says what people like to hear since he hates the lady's son but still tells her he is a good kid.

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"Oh, how nice!" the lady said. But not corny. She was just nice and all. "I must tell Ernest we met," she said. "May I ask your name, dear?"

"Rudolf Schmidt," I told her. I didn't feel like giving her my whole life history. Rudolf Schmidt was the name of the janitor of our dorm."

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Meeting the lady on the train

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This moment emphasizes Holden's anger issues and how he handles situations. This moment was very hard for him since he was so close to his brother. It explains a lot in the future such as him distancing people because he is afraid of loosing them, like he lost Allie.

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"I was only thirteen and they were going to have me psychoanalyzed and all, because I broke all the windows in the garage. I don't blame them. I really don't. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it."

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Allie's Death

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This moment is when the readers realize that Holden has anger issues and that he is not like any other kid. This is also the moment that he finally decides to do something, being that he always says he will but never does.

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"This next part I don't remember so hot. All I know is I got up from the bed, like I was going down to the can or something, then I tried to sock him, with all of my might, right smack in the toothbrush, so it would slit his goddam throat open"

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Fighting Stradlater

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This moment is significant in Holden's life because It shows the reader what kind of person he is. He starts to reveal his personality and readers get used to his actions and thoughts. This moment shows that although Holden disagrees and does not take his future seriously, he is still respectful and says what people want to hear.

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""Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules."  "Yes, sir. I know it it, I know it." Game, my ass"

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Visiting old Spencer