Tuesday, June 11, 2013

If you had to rewrite a scene from the novel The Catcher in the Rye from Phoebe's point-of-view what scene would it be?

Phoebe is the force of redemption in the story.  She
represents the quality of Eros, or the life affirming force.  This is importance because
there are not many other examples of a Eros in Holden's narrative.  If I were to add an
element to the narrative, I think that I would be interested in seeing an ending scene
where Phoebe visits Holden in the psychiatric hospital.  Phoebe seems to be the one
person where Holden can actually communicate and feel emotions that are divorced from
his venomous approach to the outside world.  I think that it might work to have Phoebe
actually talk to Holden in the hospital about how he feels and, specifically, their own
relationship.  If Holden is going to get help and actually mature into his own person,
it will have to start with his love for Phoebe.  In this light, integrating her into the
ending would be something that I could consider seeing.  Yet, in the end, this novel is
so perfect in how it was constructed that there mere idea of wanting to add something is
far beyond anything I could ever derive.

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