Fear of Change in The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salingers novel, The Catcher in the Rye, explores the life of a distrustful teenager, Holden Caulfield, who is stuck between childhood and due date. Salinger highlights that Holdens purpose is to resist the process of ageness and entering adulthood. This is evidenced and exhibit by Holdens persistent attention of adjustment, his strong opinion on the phonies of adult world, his difficulty of base on from the past and his madcap personality. Holdens fear of change contributes to his justification of the process of maturity. This is because Holden considers becoming mature a substantial change in his life and he, therefore, resists it. When Holden employ a ruin, he earn that having sex with a prostitute would contribute to his progress to adulthood. Therefore, he attempted to get pop out of it by diverting the topics of the conversations he had with the prostitute, even though he knew it was a childish thing. It is noteworthy that Holden never directly mentioned tha t he disliked sex; He merely says that he was smelling so damn peculiar. His thoughts some the museum of Natural History instal his fear of change. That is, he likes how everything ever so lenifyed right where it was. The museum represents his desire for things to stay the same. Ultimately, he does not requisite to transform into an adult, because he is afraid(predicate) of the adult world and how contrastive it is to the childhood. Also, he does not compulsion other children to grow up. This is presented finished his misinterpretation of The Catcher in the Rye poem. He says that he wants to catch children who start to go off the cliff, when the poem is truly about the sex. Holden cant move on from childhood and cant change his simple mindset.\nHolden holds adulthood in superciliousness because of its superficiality and phoniness. Holden invented phoniness in adulthood to protect himself from growing up and to give him a scapegoat, to unholy the adults. After all, Hold en believes that adults are ...