<Li> "Rubbering" or "rubbernecks"--idle onlooking / onlookers </Li> <Li> "The Can"--the bathroom </Li> <P> Bruce Brooks held that Holden's attitude remains unchanged at story's end, implying no maturation, thus differentiating the novel from young adult fiction . In contrast, Louis Menand thought that teachers assign the novel because of the optimistic ending, to teach adolescent readers that "alienation is just a phase ." While Brooks maintained that Holden acts his age, Menand claimed that Holden thinks as an adult, given his ability to accurately perceive people and their motives . Others highlight the dilemma of Holden's state, in between adolescence and adulthood . Holden is quick to become emotional . "I felt sorry as hell for ..." is a phrase he often uses . It is often said that Holden changes at the end, when he watches Phoebe on the carousel, and he talks about the golden ring and how it's good for kids to try and grab it . </P> <P> Peter Beidler, in his A Reader's Companion to J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye", identifies the movie that the prostitute "Sunny" refers to . In chapter 13 she says that in the movie a boy falls off a boat . The movie is Captains Courageous (1937), starring Spencer Tracy . Sunny says that Holden looks like the boy who fell off the boat . Beidler shows (page 28) a still of the boy, played by child - actor Freddie Bartholomew . </P>

Meaning of the ending of the catcher in the rye
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