The Catcher in the Rye
The duck
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Holden is interested in ducks. They represent innocence and mortality. The ducks represent the empathy that Holden keeps buried inside him.
The ducks. Do you know, by any chance? I mean does somebody come around in a truck or something and take them away, or do they fly away by themselves – go south or something?"
