Breaking The Code To The Catcher In The Rye discussion

I was reading The Wind in the Willows when I read something that reminded me of the Catcher. It was this:


"What?" cried the Rat, open-mouthed: "Never been in a—you never—well I—what have you been doing, then?"

"Is it so nice as all that?" asked the Mole shyly, though he was quite prepared to believe it as he leant back in his seat and surveyed the cushions, the oars, the rowlocks, and all the fascinating fittings, and felt the boat sway lightly under him.

"Nice? It's the only thing," said the Water Rat solemnly as he leant forward for his stroke. "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing," he went on dreamily: "messing—about—in—boats; messing—"

"Look ahead, Rat!" cried the Mole suddenly.

It was too late. The boat struck the bank full tilt. The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels in the air.

This is where a similar word phrasing is in the Catcher:

He wasn't even listening. He hardly ever listened to you when you said something. "I flunked you in history because you knew absolutely nothing." "I know that, sir. Boy, I know it. You couldn't help it." "Absolutely nothing," he said over again. That's something that drives me crazy. When people say something twice that way, after you admit it the first time. Then he said it three times. "But absolutely nothing. I doubt very much if you opened your textbook even once the whole term. Did you? Tell the truth, boy."


Now I admit that there isn't really very much here to give me an "Aha!" So I started looking to see if The Wind in the Willows was a political allegory. I found a review here that shows how it is:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I just started this book so I can't really comment on it yet.

Have you read The Wind in the Willows and understand the political allegory? How might this book might tie into the Catcher in the Rye as we are discussing this book in this group?