DucksIn "The Catcher in the Rye" Holden visits the pond in central park, he is fascinated by not knowing where the ducks go, the deeper meaning behind the ducks has to deal with Holden's feelings behind his brother Allie's death. In one part of the book Holden asks someone, '"You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park South? That little lake? By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over? Do you happen to know, by any chance?" I realized it was only one chance in a million"(Salinger 60). Holden can't stand the fact that he doesn't know where the ducks go, so he asks a random person if they know where they go. It's not that he really wants to know where to go, it's that he he's not only obsessed with his, or his brothers mortality, but he's obsessed with everything that dies. Later in the book Holden brings up the same thing to the same person. Holden says, '"The ducks. Do you know, by any chance? I mean does somebody come around in a truck or something and take them away, or do they fly away by themselves – go south or something"(Salinger 81). Even after bringing it up to the same person and the person not knowing, Holden brings the conversation back around, he can't shake the fact that he doesn't know where the ducks go in the winter, he doesn't like things that change, he wants everything to stay the same.
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