Catcher In The Rye Holden Maturity Analysis

Holden demonstrates to us that he doesn’t have a lot of maturity in the period that he talks to us, but from time to time Holden would surprise us with some maturity from time to time. Maturity isn’t a giant thing in Holden’s life, he goes around doing things however he wants without caring and not taking responsibilities for his own things. One time that Holden showed responsibility was here “Some game. If you’re on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game… but if you get on the other side… then what’s a game about it?” Holden said this correcting headmaster’s remark to life being a game. He’s showing some maturity and exclaiming that yea life is all fun and games until something horrible come through and affects your life that makes all the “Life is a Game” go away. When Holden said this …show more content…
He’s also noticing that the more immature he is the more it will affect Phoebe but getting towards the end of the book he finally figures that he has to grow “If they fall off they fall off, but it’s bad if you say anything to them” Holden gets to the point where he knows that he’s going to have to grow sooner or later, And he’s showing us this by figuring out that he can’t always be protecting Phoebe he has to let her grow up and experience things just like he did. What Holden is thinking here is that if he keeps on always protecting Phoebe when she grows up she’s not going to know how to live without is protection and if one day he leaves she’s not going to know what to do so the mature individual inside of him is growing up and telling if you love Phoebe set her free let it grow up and experience life just like you