"Women kill me. They really do."
(theme: relationships)
"I mean most girls are so dumb and all. After you neck them for a while, you can really watch them losing their brains. You take a girl when she really gets passionate, she just hasn't any brains."
(theme: sex, relationships)
"I don't care if it's a sad good-by or a bad good-by, but when I leave a place I like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse."
(theme: saying goodbye)
"Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell."
(theme: depression, anxiety)
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
(theme: regret, alienation)
"A lot of schools were home for vacation already, and there were about a million girls sitting and standing around waiting for their dates to show up. Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, girls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them. It was really nice sightseeing, if you know what I mean. In a way, it was sort of depressing, too, because you kept wondering what the hell would happen to all of them. When they got out of school and college, I mean. You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that always talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. Guys that are very boring."
(theme: superficialness, relationships)
"The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them."
(theme: innocence, vulnerability)
To make something clear. These quotes won't necessarily be directly represented from the book. My goal isn't to exactly re-interpret what this piece of literature is about visually. It's about picking out things (content) that I personally have felt connected to. This also makes me re-think my audience for these pieces, and I'm still considering the audience to be anyone honestly, but I need to think more specifically about who would actually want to obtain these and hang/utilize them in their own space. So, to explain it simply I'm targeting an audience that is similar to me. Young adults who have been in similar situations that they have felt vulnerable and want something to relate to visually, or typographically.
The reason I'm not directly interpreting the quote visually is because not everyone has read "The Catcher in the Rye" so taking the quote as fuel for content for my pieces seemed to make the most sense. So when I was thumbnail-ing I considered what people would most relate to. After showing them on Monday I realize I still have some more pushing out ideas. Metaphors seemed to be more successful within my first round of thumbnails, because it's completely open to interpretation.
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