The Catcher in the Rye

What is the life advice Mr. Antolini gives Holden?

What Mr. Antolini thinks will be the key to Holden's future happiness?

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He gives him a whole smattering of advice - how education is really, in the end, worth the time, how Holden should find what he's passionate about b/c it'll prevent him from a fall...he gets pretty chatty in this scene.

He writes down this quote and tells him to keep it with him:

"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."

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