The Catcher in the Rye: Chapter 24

Journal Entry
#30
October 12, 2007
Chapter 24
Page 186 Paragraph 11
Quote:
"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know."

Holden's fall is coming because he's been crying more often and he has been so depressed, he is always talking about it. He already seems to hate people because they're phonies and fakes. In the story there usually is always forshadowing, and this is foreshadowing that something bad will happen to Holden in the end. Breakdowns are actually pretty normal because of all the stress these days, but we have medicines that can fix it.