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…they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them (211)." At the end of the novel we see Holden go through a symbolic death and resurrection. Over the entire novel is a good study in the rites of passage of an American youth from adolescence into adulthood (Lundquist 61). Work Cited Lundquist, James. J. D. Salinger. Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. New York: 1979 Salinger, J. D. The Catcher in the Rye. Little, Brown & Co. Boston: 1951