"I thought about how she'd see the same stuff I used to see, and how she'd be different every time she saw it".
This quote says that every time you go to see something, you change, no matter if you go tomorrow or go again that same day you've changed. And maybe it's the phonies who don't change, who don't realize that they do change. I think it really hits home when Holden realizes that the last time he was at the museum he was a child. Now he is an adult so to speak. The more you mature the different opinions you have. Sometime in this book he went to go see his sister and found out she was at the museum than realized it was Sunday. He went to the museum any way. He did not go in, I believe it is because he didn't want to ruin his childhood memories with his mature "adult" mind. He wants to remember this museum the way he left it. He wants to keep the happy memories as a child going to the museum. He means in this quote that he sees her how he saw himself at the museum that he was different and now she would be too.
I like how you viewed this quote. You got it exactly right. Often times when we have grown, we don't want to go to the places we went as just a child because we want to keep them in the past. The memories might be great, but you want them to stay great. You don't want to taint the memories, or ruin the special place on the off chance that something not so great might happen when you go as an adult. I agree, he does see her how he saw himself.
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