This section of the book continues from Phoebe and Holden’s conversation about what Holden likes. Phoebe brings up the point because Holden constantly talks about things he doesn’t like or what annoys him. He has trouble at first answering her question, then what he finally says surprises me. He mentions a song that says, “If a body catch a body coming through the rye.” The word is actually meet instead of catch, but he explains to Phoebe that the idea of doing that is something he likes to think about. He thinks about a group of kids running through a field of rye on a cliff, and he stands at the edge and catches them if they run toward him and are about to fall off. This goes back to another section of the story when I got the feeling that Holden enjoys kids more than adults.
Robert Burns
http://www.worldburnsclub.com/poems/translations/coming_through_the_rye.htm
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