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Pencey Prep and Elkton Hills are examples of institutions that serve as symbols. For Holden, the schools represent the phony, cruel world of those who run them.

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The cap is a symbol of Holden's alienation. While the hat "protects" him, it also singles him out. It is also a symbol of childhood as the hat is a goofy/silly accessory that an adult wouldn't wear.

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It represents Holden's love for his brother and Allie's uniqueness by Allie having "poems written all over the fingers and the pocket and everywhere" (43).

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represents

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represent the phony, cruel world of those who run them.
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symbolizes allie himself and what holden remembers about him in his childhood. it represents holden's love for his brother

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For Holden, the two schools are representative of a corrupt system planned by adults and catering to boys who want to join their ranks. Holden's dilemma is that he struggles so hard against a system into which he was born.

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when you try your best but you don't succeed

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when you try your best but you don't succeed

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When you get what you want but not what you need

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They advertise in about a thousand magazines, always showing some hotshot guy on a horse jumping over a fence (pg 4) shows how pency prep is phony and fake

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"certain things...you ought to be able to stick... in one of those big glass cases and leave them alone"
JL

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"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move"(16.24).

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Represents his love for his brother and the innocence of childhood "He wrote [the poems] on it so that he'd have something to read..." (49).

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I like lots of pie sometimes for nothing

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I like lots of pie sometimes for nothing

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The ducks at Central Park symbolize the childish innocence of Holden as "it's tougher for the fish..." which represents the adults of the world where the ducks are not bound by the realities of life yet (92).

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It represents his childhood and his innocence.
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Museum of Natural History symbolism DH and DS

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Museum of Natural History symbolism DH and DS

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represents innocence and naivety and love
"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 at bat" (Salinger 49).

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Pencey Prep represents all the phony people and everything that Holden finds to be wrong with the world. not finished yet Jack Gordon

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"My brother Allie had his left-handed fielder's mitt. He was left-handed..."(43)
Holden's description about his brother shows his morality. He also uses any excuse to talk about his brother.
CL

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Holden's emotional expression is symbolized through the mitt because throughout the story readers think Holden is  a closed off person who doesn't really like people. However then with him really valuing this mitt and keeping it for a long time shows he cares. So the mitt represents love and empathy along with Holden's heart. When Holden says, "He got leukemia and died when we were in Maine on July 18, 1946. You'd have liked him" it shows he really did love his brother a lot and can like people (49).
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Holden's interrogative questions to the two taxicab drivers about where the ducks migrate to when the lake freezes over in Central Park symbolize his childlike curiosity of the world around him. This contrasts his consistent demeanor through out the novel where he criticizes what he sees. -SK

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The slogan of Pencey Prep says "'Since 1888 we have been molding boys into splendid, clear-thinking young men'", but Holden finds this to be "strictly for the birds" because he labels Pency as phony (4).
M.E. & A.P.

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Pency Prep represents

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"You know those ducks in that lagoon..." He turned around and looked at me like I was a madman. "What're ya tryna do...kid me?" (60) -PS

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Allies mitt symbolized his love for his brother. He talks about the mitt only to someone close to him, which up till now is only Jane Gallagher. M.M

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N.G.