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3546205 No.3546205 [Reply] [Original]

In The Catcher In The Rye, Holden pinches his little sister Pheobe's Butt.
"Then, just for the hell of it, I gave her a pinch on the behind. It was sticking way out in the breeze, the way she was lying on her side. She has hardly any behind."
Is there a deeper meaning to this? Why would Salinger include it?
Also, he dances way too close to his sister. Are his inevitable desires and love for childhood mixing together?

>> No.3546211

My cousins to it to each other all the time. They pinch and slap each other's butts all the time. It's like teasing your siblings by telling them they suck, only this is physical instead of verbal.

>> No.3546228

goddamn it, I was going to have a nice fap tonight

>> No.3546230
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3546230

totally platonic, man. what is wrong with you?

>> No.3546249

I think it's partial confusion or desperation
he and his sister have a close relationship in the non-physical sense
I guess he equates that to meaning there should be something more
also he doesn't score with the ladies, so there's that

>> No.3546258

Holden is a repressed pedophile due to childhood abuse.

>> No.3546267

>>3546205
The hell is wrong with you?

>> No.3546381

>>3546258
Elaborate

>> No.3546384
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3546384

It shows Holden is a brat who hurts the one person he genuinely loves because he doesn't consider her feelings.

And did you see Phoebe's ass? I mean, damn.

>> No.3546388

>>3546381
You don't remember after his former teacher starts touching him, he leaves because "that sort of thing has happened about twenty times since I was a kid"? that's a paraphrase, but he outright says he's been molested from a young age, even taking into account his penchant for hyperbole

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3546404

Am I in the right place?
ah well ahem:
DIE JOHN LENNON. DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>> No.3546414
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3546414

>>3546267

WHY DO YOU ASSUME THAT THERE IS SOMETHING "WRONG" WITH HIM?

HAVE YOU EVEN READ "THE CATCHER IN THE RYE"?

>> No.3546418

>>3546414
Are your inevitable desires and love for children mixing together?

>> No.3546432

>>3546404
I get the feeling you're trying to be funny.

>> No.3546434

>>3546414

>Read Catcher in the Rye
>Think nothing is wrong with Holden

Pick 2

>> No.3546440

>>3546432
ITT people from 4chan having feelings.
hasn't that joke gone on long enough?

>> No.3546441

>>3546434
He wasn't talking about nothing being wrong with Holden. He was questioning why that anon thinks there's something "wrong" with OP for asking a valid question about the book.

>> No.3546640

>>3546388
>>3546258

this is how i took it too. granted, i didn't connect the dots with the phoebe thing, but i did assume he was molested as a kid, but not by his father.

>> No.3546662

Holden is a sexually confused young man.