Fear of Change in The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salingers novel, The Catcher in the rye, explores the liveness of a cynical teenager, Holden Caulfield, who is stuck amongst childhood and great(p)hood. Salinger highlights that Holdens goal is to deny the transit of maturity and move into pornographichood. This is evidenced and demonstrated by Holdens persistent disquietude of change, his robust opinion on the phonies of adult world, his difficulty of moving on from the past and his impulsive personality. Holdens forethought of change makes to his resistance 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 hired a prostitute, he realised that having hinge upon with a prostitute would contribute to his progress to matureness. Therefore, he attempt to get out of it by diverting the topics of the conversations he had with the prostitute, pull down though he knew it was a childish thing. It is notable that Holden neer directly mentioned that he disliked sex; He precisely says that he was feeling so damn peculiar. His thoughts slightly the museum of rude(a) History demonstrate his fear of change. That is, he likes how everything always stayed right wing where it was. The museum represents his desire for things to stay the same. Ultimately, he does not want to commute into an adult, because he is fearful of the adult world and how different it is to the childhood. Also, he does not want opposite children to grow up. This is presented through his misunderstanding of The Catcher in the Rye poem. He says that he wants to cinch children who start to go morose the cliff, when the poem is actually about the sex. Holden cant move on from childhood and cant change his innocent mindset.\nHolden holds adulthood in disdain because of its superficiality and phoniness. Holden invented phoniness in adulthood to treasure himself from growing up and to slide by him a scapegoat, to blame the adult s. by and by all, Holden believes that adults are ...