the CATCHER in the RYE

    Today in project real i started the very old book The Catcher In The Rye. So far i have only read only 6 pages. I know this can not be enough to find the plot or any themes what so ever but i wanted to discuss a quote i read in the book.

   "What i was really hanging around for, i was trying to feel some kind of good-by. I don't care if it is a sad good-by or a bad good-by when i am leaving a place i like to know i am leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse" 

          When i read this sentence i was thinking that he was taking about his acceptance in the school. Whether he was good enough for everyone expectations while he was there. If they had enough respect for him as a person to acknowledge his absence. When you leave a place you know that you are walking out, but are you okay with just that, or do you want to know that everyone their tells you, that your gone. So to show you that they know you.
     I think that it does feel much worse when know one tells you good-by when you leave, you feel worthless, not good enough for them to waste their breathe on. That when you were there they didn't feel your own presence in the room. I think that is what themain character is trying to say. He doesnt care if its a good or bad good-by, just to know that everyone would give him the ability to leave at peace.
     To the main character, when someone says good-by to him that what signals him that he is leaveing, that he is not coming back. With everyone else when we go we don't neeed anyone to tell us we are leave ing we already know that. Even if we would rather someone to do in anyway. In his other schools he left without even realizing it mentally because no even cared so much as to say "bye."
     I never really realized how much saying a liitle word like "good-by" would matter so much to people. It shows everyone else a sign of respect to one another even though it is only one little word.