Holden is a teenager who chooses to be stuck between the complex world of childhood and adulthood. Holden hates change, we see this when he visits the Museum of Natural History. Holden enjoys the museum because it will always remain the same, this can be looked at metaphorically as the museum stays frozen. Holden too wants to stay frozen and never reach adulthood. The title of the novel itself is also metaphorical, he wants to be The Catcher in the Rye. This means he wants to be the person who will catch the kids that will fall off the cliff covered in rye, this is metaphor as Holden wants to save kids before the fall into the corrupt “phony” world of
Holden is a teenager who chooses to be stuck between the complex world of childhood and adulthood. Holden hates change, we see this when he visits the Museum of Natural History. Holden enjoys the museum because it will always remain the same, this can be looked at metaphorically as the museum stays frozen. Holden too wants to stay frozen and never reach adulthood. The title of the novel itself is also metaphorical, he wants to be The Catcher in the Rye. This means he wants to be the person who will catch the kids that will fall off the cliff covered in rye, this is metaphor as Holden wants to save kids before the fall into the corrupt “phony” world of