Motifs - Museum

The museum of natural history is a motif representing what environment Holden would like to live in. It is a simple world that never changes, which isn't confronted with problems such as death, and phoniness. Holden isn't very comfortable with his surrounding environment, he would like people to be more real; they act on a daily bases, he cant stand this, and clearly differentiates from them.
(pg.109) "The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be there just finishing catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the dears would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and their pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody'd be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. "

This quote clearly shows how much Holden likes the Museum and why. He has already been there when he was a small child, with his school. He likes the way nothing ever changes. It stays identical, no matter how often you go. No one is faking or acting differently than they usually do. No one can act phony, everyone is calm. He would really like to live in a place like this.