Breaking The Code To The Catcher In The Rye discussion

He (D.B.) just got a Jaguar. One of those little English jobs that can do around two hundred miles an hour. It cost him damn near four thousand (4200) bucks. He's got a lot of dough, now. He didn't use to. He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home. He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him. The best one in it was "The Secret Goldfish." It was about this little kid that wouldn't let anybody look at his goldfish because he'd bought it with his own money. It killed me. Now he's out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute. If there's one thing I hate, it's the movies. Don't even mention them to me. "

Holden represents General Motors Holding Company,a stock on the stock market. Because GM bought the Holden plant in 1930 when they were in financial trouble and then used that factory to start making war related items. Also when Holden signs his name on page 12 it is just like you would see it on your checks or credit card. It is not how you sign your school paper or your signature.

D.B. in this allegorical sense would be....
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=db
He made his money after writing a book of SHORT stories.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_...

also see When Money Dies: The Nightmare Of The Weimar Hyper Inflation
And The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

The one that Holden like best was called The Secret GOLD-fish. This was also the title of the book.

Secret means:
1 a : kept from knowledge or view : hidden
b : marked by the habit of discretion : closemouthed
c : working with hidden aims or methods : undercover (a secret agent)
d : not acknowledged : unavowed (a secret bride)
e : conducted in secret (a secret trial)
2 : remote from human frequentation or notice : secluded
3 : revealed only to the initiated : esoteric
4 : designed to elude observation or detection (a secret panel)
5 : containing information whose unauthorized disclosure could endanger national security — compare confidential, top secret

Goldfish symbolizes -WEALTH AND PROSPERITY
http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld...

"It was about this little kid that wouldn't let anybody look at his goldfish because he'd bought it with his own money. It killed me. " page 1 The Catcher in the Rye

D.B. drives a Jaguar.
A jaguar is at the top of the food chain. JAGUAR like to bite the head of their victim, often dismembering it from the body.

Talk about losing your head.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-ce...
See The Centry Of The Self

In the The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss the author talks about his family support of Germany because if Germany lost ...we know that Germany lost....it was the D.B. bank that bought this Jewish bankers bank for pennies. The family was ruined. The bank that had been in the family for generations gone.

Anyway....
"Now D.B. is out in Hollywood being a prostitute and all."
Holden, which represents the war machine and wall street need propaganda to get the people to support and fight in the war. It is Holden that takes his sister to the movies and buys her the Little Shirley Bean record.

In Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph he defines what it means to be a prostitute in this sense:

"What now looks wanton or sadistic seemed in the field inevitable, or just unimportant routine.
"Blood was always on our hands we were licensed to it. Wounding and killing seemed ephemeral pains, so very brief and sore was life with us. With the sorrow of living so great, the sorrow of punishment had to be pitiless. We lived for the day and died for it. When there was reason and desire to punish we wrote our lesson with gun or whip immediately in the sullen flesh of the sufferer, and the case was beyond appeal. The desert did not afford the refined slow penalties of court and gaols(prison).
"Pray God that men reading the story will not, for the love of the glamour of strangeness, go out prostitute themselves and their talents in serving another race.
"A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having battered his soul to a brute master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, bait and twist them into something which they of their own accord, would not have been. Then he is exploiting his old environment to press them out of theirs. Or after my model, he may imitate them so well that they spuriously imitate him back again. Then he is giving away his own environment: pretending to theirs and pretences are hollow, worthless things. In neither case does he do a thing of himself, nor a thing so clean as to be his own (without thought of converse), letting them take what action or reaction they please from the silent example."