For those of you who
never read the book and were
curious about the
title, or those who read it
a long time ago and
forgot, here's the
passage behind it:
'Anyway, I keep picturing all these
little kids playing some
game in this
big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody
big, I mean - except me. and I'm standing on the edge of some
crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to
catch everybody if they start to go
over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're
going I have to come out from
somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do
all day. I'd just be
the catcher in the rye. I know it; I know it's
crazy, but
that's the only thing I'd really like to be.
I know it's crazy.'
-
Holden Caulfield