People always look back to the past with memories they cherish. In The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden is no different. In this book, the character Holden looks back to happier times and doesn't like things changing. Holden's main conflict is wanting things to stay the same or to go back to how they were in the past; through the way Holden talks about things and the way people were in the past. Salinger suggests that Holden does not want things and people to change, and he wants to be able to go back to the way things were. A prime example of Holden telling the reader about how he wishes things could stay the same, is when he is looking at the museum exhibits in the city.“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody moved”(121). In this quote, Holden tells us about the exhibits he sees at the Natural History Museum in New York City. But he notices something about all of the exhibits and artwork, it's that they all were frozen, just how they had been sculpted and made years before. Holden also wishes things around …show more content…
Also in the museum in the city there is another example of this is when Holden says ”You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of the water hole, and the squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving the same blanket. Nobody’d be different from me. The only thing that would be different would be you”(121). An important part of this quote is when Holden says that nobody’d be different, the only thing that would