Catcher In The Rye Holden Motif

Have you ever felt like you are frozen, frozen to the point that you are asking people what to do and where to go using ducks as an example? In the book “Catcher in the Rye” by J. D. Salinger, Holden, the main character, is stuck in one place where he doesn't want to grow up and what to do in the future. He is getting kicked out of multiple schools over and over again. He doesn't know what to do and where to go, he is frozen in one place. He tries figuring out what to do by asking people what to do, he refers to ducks, and what do they do and where do they go when it gets frozen all over. This book’s motif conclude is Frozen Images and Ducks, while Holden is frozen he is trying to find out what to do using the ducks motif. While Holden is frozen all over, he starts wondering, where do ducks go? If it gets all frozen all over, where do they go? If they can escape the frozen then maybe he can too, or at least that's what he thought. He takes a lot of walks

The ducks are usually being mentioned when they talk about frozen images, for example when Holden was “wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over?”(16, Salinger) as he was driving in a taxi and asking a stranger such a question. Holden's mind was so concentrated into finding out where the ducks go, and where he should go, that he ended up asking a random taxi driver where do the ducks end up going when it gets all frozen over? He is so desperate knowing that he asks that again later in the book, “Do you happen to know where they go, the ducks when it gets all frozen over?” (67, Salinger) Again Holden feels the need to ask a taxi driver where do ducks go, since he hasn't gotten a proper answer from the previous one. Holden is so frozen that he has the need to ask strangers about where should ducks go, just because he is frozen and he needs to escape this frozen cold