Where do the ducks go?

I chose this painting to represent Holden's curiosity about where the ducks go in the wintertime. When Holden is in stressful situations that make him nervous or depressed, he tends to wonder about the ducks. Holden is distracted by the thought of it while he's talking to Spencer. He asks a cab driver in New York on page 60, when he's lost and has just gotten to the city: "You know those ducks in that little lagoon right near Central Park South?...By any chance, do you happen to know where they go, the ducks, when it gets all frozen over?" When Holden is thinking about Jane, and he's wandering about New York, he gets in another cab. "New York's terrible when somebody laughs on the street very late at night....It makes you feel so lonesome and depressed" (81). Holden then proceeds to ask that cab driver about the ducks, and they get into a long conversation about it, but the cabbie doesn't understand. In a way, Holden is asking about himself--where should he go? The world is cold and inhospitable to him, a sort of lasting winter, freezing him out--in the midst of all this hostility, where is there for him to go? It is very important for Holden to find out where the ducks go, because then maybe he can figure out what he is supposed to do with his life.