Then all of a sudden, something very spooky started happening. Every time I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam kerb, I had this feeling that I’d never get to the other side of the street. I thought I’d just go down, down, down and nobody’d ever see me again. Boy it did scare me… Every time I’d get to the end of a block I’d make believe I was talking to my brother Allie. I’d say to him, ‘Allie, don’t let me disappear. Allie, don’t let me disappear. Allie, don’t let me disappear. Please, Allie.’ And then when I’d reach the end of the street without disappearing, I’d THANK him.
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the
Rye : 204
24 September, 2007 at 9:10 am
i really like that quote….im feeling kinda depressed and i just finished the book today cuz they made me read it at school…but i really liked it…..and that is one of my favorite quotes from the book
it really shows me how depressed he was
24 September, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Thanks for stopping by Sean. I’m glad you liked Catcher in the rye; it’s my favourite novel of all time.
10 October, 2007 at 11:28 pm
my god sean is feeling depressed why man? answer
im from jamaica
i love books
10 October, 2007 at 11:29 pm
dont feel sorry joseph…ifeel better now….jamaica???!! really???
24 October, 2008 at 11:40 am
it also shows Holden’s inner madness and psychiatric illness he has obtained due to his brother Allie’s death
11 December, 2008 at 6:14 am
how is this existentialism?
13 March, 2009 at 2:37 am
I feel as if the curb at the end of the street represents the cliff described on page 173 (where he tells pheobe he wants to be the catcher in the rye). He wants allie to save him from falling off the cliff as he wants to save others.