“Girl Next Door” by Hathaway Brown starts off by saying “All the pinups in magazines / Movie stars on the silver screen / Don 't do anything for me / Can 't you see.” Then he continues the song with “She 's the girl next door / Nice but naughty / A heart that 's pure / She 's the girl next door / Just for me.” In summary, what this song is saying is that the singer knows this girl that means a lot to him. She is ideally the perfect girl and the only one who deserves her is the singer. She also has such a sweet and kind heart, as well as a fun personality. While girls in magazines or fancy movie stars do not interest him, this amazing girl means everything. He could “call her up on the phone whenever” or “take her on a walk.” This …show more content…
Now it is the real world. Everybody is looking out for himself or herself trying to get by day by day. In a way, the singer sounds like she is feeling sorry for herself and is asking the world what to do “when the world don’t orbit around you.” Clearly, she is not used to having her parents do everything for her or someone basically ‘babying’ her and is taking growing up as more difficult than she thought/ Every day is such an experience because she’s not used to the feeling of being alone. The question for her now is how will she handle herself in this real world? This story encompasses Holden’s life and his struggle with change, a very prevalent theme in this novel. For Holden, change did not react well with Holden and when he got to the real world on his own, he treated people rudely, made judgements about too many things, kept a very closed mind, and blew all of his money. Like the singer, Holden cannot stand when things do not go his way or people do not act exactly how he wants them to, which is such an unrealistic expectation. They’re both “ignoring trouble, while living in [their own] bubble.” Instead of asking the world for help and expecting to be the center of attention, maybe the singer and Holden should think about why they are not there in the first place; they should fix their personalities before expecting others to fix