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Salinger, Revisited (Boston: Twayne, 1988), pp. 5759 Â < previous page < previous page page_56 page_57 next page > next page > Page 57 Joyce Rowe on Holden's Self-Inflicted Wounds [Joyce Rowe is a professor of English at Fordham University and the author of Equivocal Endings in Classic American Novels (1988). ] Because Holden is never allowed to imagine or experience himself in any significant struggle with others (his bloody fistfight with Stradlater emphasizes the futility of any gesture that is open to him), neither he (nor his creator) can conceive of society as a source of growth, or self-knowledge.

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