Everybody at some point has to grow up. everybody will, sooner or later, have to adopt the responsibility that comes with adulthood. Holden Caulfield, the protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, is experiencing major growth throughout the book. This is evident through Characterization, Holden’s thoughts and realizations, and Plot events throughout the story. Throughout the book, Holden gives the impression to be reluctant and resistant to grow up and be an adult. He favors the companionship of more mature and intelligently developed children like Phoebe, his younger sister over most adults or older people, like Sally Hayes, Old Spencer and so on. Holden also consistently calls many adults “phony” as he is not fond of their fraudulent actions. Despite Holden’s resistance of adulthood, he still does undergoes many changes in his actions that shows he is maturing and becoming an adult, as well as becoming part of and accustomed too many parts of adult life. …show more content…
When Mr. Antolini tells him that quote about maturing, and Holden “truly thinks about it”. This depicts that holden's reflecting on what becoming an adult means. Now that Holden is willingly accepting that he will eventually transfer into adulthood, and is discovering how to do that correctly. when Holden is thinking of growing up and becoming is adult is evident when he visits a museum on page... Holden eventually discovers that “the museum never changes - the only thing that changes is you”. Holden registers that he is adapting to adulthood and is coming to terms with it. Holden is continually pondering the transformation into adulthood, so that means he is changing, figures out that he is changing, and is coming to terms with it
Fear of growing up. Change. Innocence. These are all relatable traits that most people can understand as a teenager. Nineteen year old Holden Caulfield, the main character from J.D Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, possess all of these traits. I think there's a little bit of Holden Caufield in all of us. People who are resentful and afraid of the ever growing world around us, but still all the same try to grow up a little bit too fast. As well as, people who try to retain any innocence they have. All of this and more is why J.D Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye is still very relevant today.
Throughout the book The catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield takes a journey through his life. On the outside of this young teenage boy it may seem like he has it together, but the inside of him is a full-hearted child. Holden has troubles with his inability to not try and save every innocent life he passes all the while he’s trying to force childhood and his actions back on himself. The sudden death of his brother Allie makes him go through this transition where he needs to grow up and face reality, but he instead chooses to hide behind the thoughts of a child. Although some may think that Holden has grown up because of the change he shows from the beginning to the end of the novel and the fact that reality might have hit him, that is not the case.
When people grow up for some it is painless while for others it is difficult. J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye is a book about a boy named Holden who is scared to grow up, he tries to hold on to his childhood for as long as he can. Growing up is something that Holden fears as seen throughout the story. Salinger revels Holden’s fear of change through The Museum of Natural History, Little Shirley Beans Record, and the ducks in Central Park.
Roberto Villalon Holden Caulfield is a teenage boy who struggles growing up. Throughout the book Catcher in the rye by J.D. Sallinger, Holden Caulfield is a teenage boy who experience struggles growing up and facing the real world he is living in. Holden unable to accept growing because he is not mature enough to take responsibilities. Holden is a teeanger who refuses to grow up because of his sad childhood and he does not understand people around him.
Stories always differ in how characters develop change. Characters usually change from their first encounter to their last. In The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D Salinger, the main character does not experience change. Throughout the book, the main character, Holden Caulfield, simply is just a young adult strict about change. He is still his narcissistic-self, believing everyone is phony except himself, also focusing on the wrong aspects of life.
Most teens seem to believe that they are more prepared for drinking, drugs, and sex than they actually are. This mindset is no different for 16 year old Holden Caulfield in the book, The Catcher in the Rye. As the novel's main character, Holden attempts to participate in adult activities, although he is inexperienced, because his brother's death stole his childhood innocence. Holden felt as though he was responsible for protecting his sister and other young children by pushing himself to become an adult. Although Holden thought forcing himself to grow up would help himself and others, it only resulted in his mental relapse. Since Holden's failed attempts at adulthood resulted in his insanity, the challenges of change are consistently reiterated
Growing up can be scary for anyone. Some kids handle it better than others. Holden Caulfield, the main character in J.D salinger’s book The Catcher in the Rye has a difficult time handling responsibilities and adult situations. Holden is afraid to grow up because he does not want to abandon his childish ways and start handling responsibilities as an adult. He is also a troubled 16 year old kid who tries to escape his problems instead of solving them.
Holden is a teenager who never wants to grow up. In the novel Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden, as a central character, endured the pain of growing up. Holden wanted to keep his innocence, but he was slowly maturing. From the symbol of his red hunting hat, which shielded himself from the outside world, to the motif of his loneliness and alienation, and to the allegory of the catcher in the rye dream, Holden is suffering from the pain to grow up and the desire to keep his innocence.
No matter what time period they are in teenagers have struggled with the in between feeling of whether or not they are mature enough to make their own choices, and whether or not their parents and peers believe they are mature. In the Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger, demonstrates this feeling that many teenagers experience through Holden’s life and his maturity. Although just like with real life, readers have different opinions about Holden’s maturity and ability to make decisions. JD Salinger shows how Holden is too immature to make his own decisions because of his impetuous personality and his feeling of needing to act his age and be mature.
J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, highlights key symbols and thoughts as well as personality traits of the narrator, Holden, throughout the book. Many of Holden’s thoughts connect back to his immaturity and lack of adult behavior; however, he does become slightly more mature and realistic at the very end of the novel. Holden wants to preserve innocence in a world of corruption. While some believe that Holden regresses in the novel, he actually remains static for the majority because of his thoughts of running away, lying constantly, and desperation for innocence, but he matures at the very end by coming to terms with the fact that children must grow and lose their innocence along the way.
In J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye," the protagonist Holden Caulfield struggles with his own perception of maturity and innocence. Holden's journey can be seen as a struggle between his impulsive, idealistic desires and the sobering realities of the adult world. His hate for the phoniness of adulthood and his idealization of childhood innocence are at odds with his deep yearning to find a purpose worth living for. Holden tries to pave a path toward maturity, as he navigates the complexities of a world that seems at once too corrupt and too innocent. In "The Catcher in the Rye," Holden Caulfield is really caught up in how he sees being grown-up versus staying young.
The Catcher in the Rye fixates upon the fragile mental state of jaded sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield. Ever since the death of his brother Allie, Holden has been expelled from every school he’s ever attended and has become increasingly cynical of human nature, condemning everyone he meets for their phoniness. He lacks the ability to identify his own feelings and prefers the word “depressed” to describe every negative emotion, hoping to take away the word’s severity with his overuse of it. At sixteen, Holden is realizing that it is time for him to become an adult, and while he attempts to do adult activities once he is on his own, he ultimately resists the pull of adulthood and equates aging with losing one’s innocence; he wishes to preserve
Holden Caulfield plays a timeless character in the sense that his way of life is common for the American teenager, in his time as well as now. Today parents dread the terrible and confusing adolescent years of their child's life. In J.D. Salinger's book, The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is in this terrible and confusing point of his life. At this point in his life, as well as in modern teenager's lives, a transition occurs, from child to adult. Holden takes this change particularly rough and develops a typical mentality that prevents him from allowing himself to see or understand his purpose in life.
Leaving your childhood years behind to become an adult can be difficult to adapt due to the growing responsibilities, and pressure to be successful on your own. In the novel, the Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield, a boy growing up in the fifties fights with the idea of growing up. Yet, it is something that all people are bound to experience. Holden refuses to put effort into school and is expelled again for his actions. Holden tends to act immaturely and impulsively decides to wander around New York City while avoiding his parents.
Holden Caulfield, the narrator and the main character of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, is a young adult, who, at first seems to simply describes his four day adventure in New York City after bring expelled from his forth school. However, at the same time he narrates more; through his many experiences, which he describes in the book, we can see the themes of the work. The theme that definitely stands out is the loss of innocence. Holden portrays himself as an individual, who does not want to grow up and change. From the beginning, it is obvious that Holden does not like anyone, except children. To Holden, the world around him, the adult world and all of its members, is phony. In other words, the innocent world of children is