Quest for Love. About Holden Caulfield's starving to allocate his love in "Catcher in the Rye" by Salinger

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…h realizations in theses few days of his life give him a new perspective in his once secure world. He realizes that caring, not catching, is needed in the preservation of innocence. Catching some children in the rye merely saves a select number of individuals, for a little period of time. It is Holden's realization that children are destined to fall from innocence and it is futile for him to try to change it otherwise.