The Catcher and the Rye

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             Eventually, the story stops to where Holden was telling the story, in a hospital or institution of some sort. He says to us or the people at the hospital how sorry he is for telling the story.
             When reading the story, it seems that Holden represents the personality of most teenage boys, although I would exclude the fact that he is perhaps more sensitive than most.
             At the beginning, he sounded very casual in his manner of speech. Take for example the introduction, where he gives us the message that his story is not at all important, that this kind of stuff bores him, and that it is not worthy enough to be heard. The readers can get the impression that they were already supposed to be curious about hearing his story in the beginning. This emphasizes that his story was not intended to hold the readers in contempt or to show that it was unimportant to our cause, or the cause of the people at the hospital. Most teenage boys are like this sometimes. Take me for example, I normally talk similarly like him usually around other people my age, as to "blend" in more, and to sound "tough" as well. A lot of times, when teenage boys talk among th
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