“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this 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. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be.”- Holden Caulfield
Bias
Throughout the novel, I was able to see personal connections between the main character, Holden, and myself. The most direct example of my connection with him is that we are both teenagers. Similar to Holden, I sometimes feel lost and desire to be far away from the realities of the world. However, we can never go beyond because of the responsibilities we have.