A running motif in the book seems to be, of all things, where the ducks in Central Park go for the winter. Now, I have several problems with this (namely the fact that he harasses every taxi driver he meets with the question), but the one I have is this: Did they not know about migration at that point, or was the idea to make everyone ignorant? Holden constantly wonders about this, asking people about it; when he does so, nobody seems to know.
Either this is a concept much newer than I expected, or Salinger really thinks poorly about the American public's intelligence. For the record, ducks migrate south. They have no specific path, and if it's warm enough, they might just stay where they are.
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