Throughout the novel, Holden Caulfield is referred as a Bildungsroman or that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood. This process is extremely important, but in Holden’s case it turned negative because he lacks the maturity to progress forward into adulthood. By being stranded in two consciences of adulthood and childhood, his depression is established. Holden thieves on the innocence of children because of the abrupt way he lost his innocence. Furthermore, Holden's abandonment of his family, which Holden makes clear in the novel when his mother and father emitted him to a sanatorium or a mental hospital. However, Holden admires the positives of adulthood, such as alcohol, sex and women ;
