Teddy as a Christ Figure

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…n when he died, he made as much of a name for himself during his lifetime as Jesus made in the thirty years of his life. "Teddy" parallels the story of Jesus in many respects. Their personalities, how they lived, how they died are all similar, and it is most probably that Salinger intended to create a Christ figure in Teddy, as an insightful mirror to the real story of Jesus, from the first-person view.