Holden himself say on the last page of the book, "D.B. asked me what I thought about all this stuff I just finished telling you about...If you want to know the truth, I don't know what I think about it." (p 213) By the end of the novel, I don't think that Holden himself has reached any concrete conclusions. I think though that eventually he will. He has laid the ground work for revelation, …showed first 75 words of 730 total…

…showed last 75 words of 730 total…ough to make memories is what people should be doing in the end. I mean, aren't the memories we all have, from people who really touched our lives in some way? From people we had to let in? No matter how happy or painful a memory may be, they're powerful and by the end Holden comes to realize that there's just as much control in staying somewhere as there is in running away from it.