How Does Holden Mature

The never ending insecurities, that build up like a ball and roll down to crush you, is a hard feeling to naturally stop. Many people may worry, get anxiety, or just grow a thin border of fake personality, to protect their real selves from human judgement of their insecurities. Holden, the sixteen year old boy with internal struggles of the human nature, is the main character of The Catcher in the Rye; a novel written by J.D. Salinger. The main character often fights his vexation against fake, shallow, hypocritical, inauthentic, and superficial people, by calling them all in one word, “phony”. Someone phony, can often times show their fake, thin personality, when in a stressful event, or when trying to impress someone. Throughout The Catcher

In The Catcher in The Rye, by J.D, the main character, Holden, can be seen as a troubled teenager growing up in a less than perfect society. Throughout the novel Holden struggles with the fact that many young and innocent kids will grow up and see the world from a different perspective. He naturally becomes worried for all future generations who will one day grow, as he did, and loose their innocence. The fixation of youth and innocence can be seen in the title of the book, as well as throughout the novel.

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the main character, Holden, cannot accept that he must move out of childhood and into adulthood. One of Holden’s most important major problems is his lack of maturity. Holden also has a negative perspective of life that makes things seem worse than they really are. In addition to Holden’s problems he is unable to accept the death of his brother at a young age. Holden’s immaturity, negative mentality, and inability to face reality hold him back from moving into adulthood.

When we grow up we’re raised to do our best and to be mature. People know their right from wrongs. Throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye by, J.D. Salinger the main character goes through a difficult life and time growing up. Growing up too fast is not the answer for everything. The main character Holden Caulfield is a misfit because he is very dramatic, he avoids facing things, and he shows reckless behavior.

It takes many experiences in order for an immature child to become a responsible, well-rounded adult. In J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger’s main character Holden Caulfield matures throughout the course of the novel. In the beginning of the novel, Holden is a juvenile young man. However, through his experiences, Holden is able to learn, and is finally able to become somewhat mature by the end of the novel. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield’s story represents a coming of age for all young adults.

The resistance of maturity and adulthood is greatly expressed throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye. J.D. Salinger describes the events of an adolescent and his inability to escape the difficulties of his past causing a delay in maturity. Both fear and trauma created during past events caused a delay or rejection in maturity. Holden is unable to move on from his past and is constantly trying to live in a memory. This causes him to want to stay with his childhood and resist transitioning into adulthood. Holden’s fear of adulthood causes him isolate himself from society in order to preserve and protect his childhood innocence. Lastly, Holden’s inability step out of his immaturity

In the previous chapters, some of Holden’s behaviors and the things that Holden mentioned are immature. In a way that, he wishes to stay as a child because he had a lousy childhood. Just like when he reads, he likes to read some part in novels over and over again. Holden must have likes the part and he doesn’t want it to end hence, he rereads it. Everything that Holden brought up in the first two chapters are negative.

This speaks to Holden’s pessimistic nature and why he doesn’t care about many things but also why he alienates himself from society and other people, and therefore it’s possible that he didn’t try in school because he thinks school and

A child’s transition to adulthood is not always an easy task and may have several obstacles to overcome in the process. In the novel The Catcher in the Rye, J D Salinger explores the struggle of growing up and moving forward into the unexplored adult world. Salinger uses symbolism to develop the theme that the childhood’s innocence is destroyed by the cruel realities of the adult world. While the theme is never directly discussed in the novel it is very clearly illustrated through the genius use of symbols. Whether it be an old baseball glove, a pond full of ducks or even a carousel, the innocence of childhood will always be lost to the brutal adult world.

According to Penelope Eckert’s work Jocks and Burnouts: Social Categories and Identity in High School (1989), adolescence is a real struggle for adolescents and Holden Caufield’s story is a prime example. Insecurity is related to adolescents’ belief to be not enough ready to face adult’s world and to the fear of failure. In the other hand, it is not easy to build up a new personality and attitude from the beginning, so it is normal to give in insecurity for an adolescent since the traumatizing passage to adulthood is rich of trying circumstances.

In J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, a young man named Holden Caulfield is on the edge of adulthood. He is a bright kid but struggles with many mental diseases mainly because of the passing of his brother Allie. This has caused him to not focus on school and has got him kicked out of many schools. He did not have many friends and he did not like many people. He thought of everyone as phony. Holden does not want to confront adulthood in fear of losing his childhood because of the fear of change, conformity to the phony world and the passing of his younger brother Allie.

In J.D Savlingers book The Catcher in the Rye, the seventeen year old protagonist Holden Caulfield is in a constant battle of who he is, and who he wants to be. The young narrator of this novel is in a hole that seems nearly impossible to get out. Holden is starting to become an adult but is in fear of the adult world and what it contains. He believes that they are just a bunch of phonies and is scared straight of adulthood. He resists as much as he can, but has little choice. Through this journey he is constantly struggling in his walk of life. From class expectation to family, and even himself, Holden is struggling to find answers and fix things that are broken. All of these struggles have one event tied to them and that is the death of his brother Allie. Part of Holden's collapse is due to his inability to accept his brothers death. He is always haunted by the image of his brother lying dead in his tomb. He wants beautiful things to last, and that part of the reason why he despises adulthood. The reality is too much for Holden in his eyes. Holden believes that Childhood and Adulthood are both separate and drastically different. These beliefs is the reason Holden Caulfield doesn't fit into neither adulthood or childhood.

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher is the Rye, the protagonist Holden Caufield’s point of view reveals how he does not mature from the beginning to the end of the book. Holden goes through many stressful events during the weekend, but instead of coming out more mature, he proves to be violent and irresponsible as the story goes on. Holden’s violent mind is revealed towards the beginning of the book as he gets into an altercation with a roommate he is somewhat jealous of. In the book, it states, “All I know is I got up from my bed, like I was down to the can or something, and then I tried to sock him, with all my might” (Salinger 49).

Holden is not your average teenager you hear about every day. His parents repeatedly send him off to boarding schools and he continuously gets kicked out. Allie, his younger brother, died at a very young age; his brother’s death brought a huge impact upon him. Repeatedly, Holden attempts to connect with the outside world. Despite the fact, he has this constant battle in his head whether to be either isolated from the world or to make friends and acquaint with others around him. The slightest things about people bother Holden, their dishonesty, phony behavior, shallowness, etc. Continuously he judges others, isolates himself from the world so he can’t get emotionally hurt by others. Nevertheless, Holden still attempts to talk with others and

In the book Tthe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden encounters a collection of internal struggles, emotional instability along with thoughts of his brother as well as external such as confrontations and rough weather alike [run-on] . Holden is among two distinctive worlds one is his childhood and alternative is his maturity. Without realizing it he is exactly in midst of choosing meaningful decision although he doesn’t know which path is premium. Life is uncommonly acute to this young teen. In countless ways Holden acts younger than his age suggest, however he is changing and becoming