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Catcher In The Rye Chapter 16 Outline

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Chapter 16: “It’s All About Sex…” Main Ideas: 1. Sex is disguised by other things such as objects or activities 2. Parts where sex is coded can actually be more intense than literal descriptions Connection: In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden describes his pastimes with Jane playing checkers. Although it doesn’t specifically say, Holden wanted to have sex with her. When Holden talks about how Jane wouldn’t move her back row of kings in checkers, it describes the wall Jane put up in order to block out Holden. The activity of checkers shows Holden’s ambition to have sex with Jane in contrast to the wall she put up against Holden. Like the chapter said, sex and sexuality is described through actions or objects and this action describes the character’s

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