…I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill, right next to this crazy cannon that was in the Revolutionary War and all. You could see the whole field from there, and you could see the two teams bashing each other all over the place. You couldn’t see the grandstand too hot, but you could hear them all yelling, deep and terrific on the Pencey side, because practically the whole school …showed first 75 words of 991 total…

…showed last 75 words of 991 total…or she would probably be made fun of and teased if he or she said this, so instead he or she would build this “wall” around them and keep their feelings in them so they would be protected. Eventually the wall may become unbreakable or hardened so that not many if any of his or her feelings will be shown. In the first chapter, I think Holden has foreshadowed the same situation happening to himself.