He has several essentially nervous habits that he remarks "keep me from getting bored". One of them was to light matches and watch them burn down.
Holden pretends he was shot and his gut is full with bullets. He puts his hand under his jacket to keep the "blood from dripping".
Allie is significant to thew story because ever since he died Holden has become a different person. Holden tries the best he can to keep allies spirit as close as he can by keeping some of his personal things.
In "The Catcher in the Rye," Laverne, who is a character at Pencey Prep, repeatedly asks Holden about his plans and whether he is going to see a certain girl, indicating her curiosity about his social life. This reflects Holden's overall struggle with connection and intimacy, as he often feels alienated from those around him. Laverne's inquiries highlight his reluctance to engage in typical teenage interactions, further emphasizing his sense of isolation.
A change of scenery may keep you from getting bored. Take a walk outside, read a book, or try something new. Spend time with interesting people. Set personal goals to give you things to do during down time.
Jane was friends with Holden when she was his neighbor back in their childhood. She always kept her kings in the back row. Whenyou keep your kings in the back row you cant move forward with the game, so in that case Jane represents holden's thoughts of a childs innocence and not becoming corrupted by the phony world.
"The catcher in the rye" symbolizes who Holden wants to be. As he describes it to Pheobe, he wants to be someone who catches kids, who are playing in a field of rye, from falling off a cliff. This symbolizes that Holden wants to keep kids in their innocence and prevent them from having to deal with maturity and the pains that follow it. This in turn shows that Holden can't deal with growing up.
Holden repeatedly says "Allie, don't let me disappear" in J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" because he is haunted by the loss of his younger brother, Allie, who died of leukemia. Holden is struggling with feelings of isolation and alienation, and he fears losing his connection to his brother and his memories of him. By repeating this phrase, Holden is expressing his desire to hold on to his past and not lose himself in the present.
to keep you focused and to let you hear something instead of looking at the same thing and getting bored
Holden is the manager of the fencing team; on the way down to the match he forgot all of the equipment on the train.
In "The Catcher in the Rye," the golden ring Holden Caulfield buys for his sister Phoebe symbolizes his desire to protect her innocence and keep her safe from the harsh realities of the world. It represents his longing to preserve her youth and hold on to the purity he believes is slipping away from him and those he cares about.
This has much to do with the general value that Holden has for innocence. Jane keeping her kings in the back was a safe way of playing, to the degree of not even playing really. Holden is therefore asking if she is still the innocent girl he once knew.
The "Little Shirley Beans" record represents childhood and Holden wants to give it to Phoebe because he wants her to stay a child forever. The record plays the same song and never changes, just as how he does not want Phoebe to change, and the breaking of the record symbolizes the problem in Holden's plan and how he cannot actually keep her a child forever.