Holden believes in innocence. The purity of children.
He is willing to defend it to the hilt, heroic or disillusioned, extreme?
He says, when discovering the F*** you writing his in sister's school, he imagines himself catching the 'pervert bum' who did it and 'smashing his head off the stone steps... until he was goddamn dead and bloody.'
Pretty extreme. So much for being a 'pacifist, to tell you the truth'.... note use of direct address. Unlike Meursault, Holden is very self conscious in his writing. The height of phoniness. He edits and contradictions how he appears.
How do we view this?
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