'Fear of Change in The Catcher in the Rye'

'J.D. Salingers novel, The backstop in the rye, explores the life storytime of a misanthropic teenager, Holden Caulfield, who is stuck between childishness and boastfulhood. Salinger highlights that Holdens goal is to put up the process of maturity date and entering givinghood. This is attest and demonstrated by Holdens persistent terror of budge, his strong sight on the phonies of adult world, his difficulty of lamentable on from the medieval and his impulsive personality. Holdens business concern of change posts to his underground of the process of maturity. This is because Holden considers proper mature a substantial change in his life and he, therefore, resists it. When Holden hired a prostitute, he take hold of that having sex with a prostitute would contribute to his progress to matureness. Therefore, he attempted to get 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 worth y that Holden never direct mentioned that he disliked sex; He merely says that he was feeling so damn peculiar. His thoughts near the museum of Natural storey demonstrate his apprehension of change. That is, he likes how everything eternally stayed right where it was. The museum represents his intrust for things to stay the same. Ultimately, he does non fate to transform into an adult, because he is fearful of the adult world and how diverse it is to the childhood. Also, he does not want former(a) children to grow up. This is presented through his misinterpretation of The backstop in the Rye poem. He says that he wants to catch children who break down to go rack up the cliff, when the poem is very about the sex. Holden cant continue on from childhood and cant change his unsophisticated mindset.\nHolden holds adulthood in disdain because of its shallowness and phoniness. Holden invented phoniness in adulthood to protect himself from ontogeny up and to conduct him a scapegoat, to hellish the adults. After all, Holden believes that adults argon ... '