ndard that few people, only his dead brother, his 10-year-old sister, and a fleeting friend [Jane] can live up to" that make him a snob (7).
             Presenting Holden as "snobbish" hardly does him justice. Critics such Frederick L. Gwynn, Joseph L. Blotner, and Frederic I. Carpenter view Holden as a character who is "Christ-like in his ambition to protect children before they enter the world of destruction and phoniness" (Carpenter 24). Holden's experiences througho
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