"The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. . . . Nobody’d be different. The only thing that would be different would be you."
Holden says this quote when he visits the museum of natural history before his date with Sally Hayes. This quote explains why Holden Caulfield loves to go to the museum and it reminds him of the school trips that he took to this museum.
As we know, Holden doesn't want change, he is scared of to face the reality. He doesn't want to deal with the complexities of life, and he just want to be the same Holden Caulfield. I think the museum is a symbolism of a life that he wants to live. The Eskimos, the Native Americans don't move at all. He says, everybody always stayed right where it was, that showed that everything stays the same and nobody changes. Holden Caulfield likes that because he wants to live in a world of things that always stay the same, things that do not change. Holden doesn't want to face challenges of life, or the reality.
He wants to live a simple and a silent life just like the museum.
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