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“I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go. I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.” (13) When Holden asks about the ducks in the pond he is really asking about himself and what happens when people don't know how to deal with they're life, where do they go when it seems there is no place for them? He doesn't really want to know what happens to the ducks, he wants to know what's going to happen to him. Holden keeps asking this as a symbol for having no direction and being overly confusion. He knows that his life is sinking into depression, something that he knows little about and he senses that he is going c