What does the title Catcher In the Rye mean?

My teacher told me he is looking for 3 meanings


1 is that his brother that died was a baseball catcher (thats the catcher part)


2 "In the Rye" is a song that a little kid was singing i think when he was at the park or something so what's the 3rd one?

What does the title Catcher In the Rye mean?
In basic terms - Holden Caulfield was trying to save children from losing the innocence by catching them in the rye field before they fell over and lost it.
Reply:Catcher in the Rye was someone who would catch people before they fell off of the nearby cliff.
Reply:His brother Allie wasn't a catcher; he had a baseball glove with poetry written all over it in green ink. The song "When a Body Meet a Body Comin' Through the Rye" has to do with sexual encounters. Holden does not fare well when it appears innocence is in danger. The final meaning of "the catcher in the rye" originates from a dream Holden had in which he is standing on a cliff catching children who are playing in a field of rye. His job is to catch them and to throw them back into the field so that they can be safe and can continue to play. He is attempting to keep them safe, metaphorically maintaining their innocence.
Reply:That he was catching the kids in the rye field so they didn't go over the cliff - or something.
Reply:When Holden is asked by his sister, Phoebe, about what he wants to be when he grows up, he says he wants to be a "catcher in the rye" who waits at the bottom of a cliff for children who fall off of it while playing, and keeps them from getting hurt. The cliff represents childhood, and children falling off of it symbolizes them growing up and maturing, losing their innocence. Holden, at the bottom, sees himself as already having lost this innocence and being part of the adult world he despises. Even so, he wishes to save younger children from a similar fate (i.e. being so angry that Allie died because death is an adult experience, being outraged at "****" being on the wall of Phoebe's school because it was too mature of a word for kids).
Reply:He was bothered by the song "Comin' Through the Rye" because he imagined children playing in a rye field at the edge of a cliff that they couldn't see because the rye was so tall, and he decided that he wanted to be the "catcher in the rye," to stand at the edge and catch any child in danger of falling over.

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