About final revelations...

After his clandestine visit to her sister Phoebe in his house, Holden achieve to get away successfully without anyone noticing his presence.

Having no place to go and no money, he walked down to Mr. and Mrs. Antolini’s apartment. Mr. Antolini was a sophisticated guy, a pretty heavy drinker and an intellectual. Afterwards, they had a conversation about why Holden flunked his subjects and was kicked out of school. Mr. Antolini, in his casual philosophical style told him that he had a feeling that he was riding for a kind of terrible fall, a feeling that he was dying nobly, for some highly unworthy cause.  After that, he gave him a paper with a message that was written by a psychoanalyst named Wilhelm Stekel…

Here’s what he said: “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”

He continued advising Holden, and concluded that he should come back to school, past the disagreeable situations, because once he got to past it, he will be closer to what he want, to the kind of information that will be very dear to his heart.

Holden stayed to sleep there, but he had a surprise during the night. He woke up because he had caught Mr. Antolini patting him on the head. That really perplexed him, and he ran away of the apartment wondering if Mr. Antolini was a pervert or only liked to pat people.

”How do you know you’re going to do something until you do it?”

Freaking out, Holden is completely bewildered about his life. He imagined plans to escape and live in a cabin in the middle of the forest, with no people, no situations or things. His lunatics’ ideas had sense for a moment, so he decided to say goodbye to Phoebe and meet her near her school.

Phoebe appears with a suitcase to surprise of his brother. She would not let him go, at least, not alone. That was not in Holden’s plans, so inevitably they fought.

By the end, they go for a walk where they find a carrousel. This is a decisive moment for Holden… He observes his sister enjoying the play, and express that is happy, happy for the first time in the whole book. He is captivated for the innocence of a child, but old enough to refuse the invitation to go with her. The guy is standing there, accepting that he is not part of the ritual but still had the not blinded eye that works for spectators of beauty.

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