The quote in the title of the post is from J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
What J.D. Salinger means by the quote is that there are always diverse personalities among people. Every human being has their own way of living life and facing the events they tread along. Basically, all characters in their respective book and setting are original. Thus saying, Salinger implies that Holden in Catcher in the Rye is a long ways distant to the protagonist of David Copperfield. Dickens' style of distinguishing a person motives of the standard of living. If you think about how one lives, David Copperfield lives without a father figure and a broken family. Holden on the other hand suffers at his own hand to recognize that his snottiness toward his family's fortune is taken for granted.
Both characters are different in ways of how they deal with money and family relations. The protagonists' opinions of the situations they are in are shortcomings and unforgivable in most instances. Just the thought of dealing with the unfair life leads them to believe in their own matters. Charles Dickens apprehends Pip's motives of seeking family, but always gets caught in his own fantasy, simply losing sight of his goals.
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