Holden is so desperate for company that even though he doesn’t like the people he’s with and they make him more and more depressed, he still stays with them. An example of this is when Holden is coming back from Ernie’s bar in a depressed state when he meets a man in the elevator called Maurice who asks him he he’d like a prostitute. Holden agrees without really thinking because his depression clouds his …show more content…
This is why Holden is mostly alienated from adults and connects more to the innocence of children like the girl at the park and his sister Phoebe. This shows Holden’s disillusionment towards both adult and childhood. In a way, Holden already knows how it feels to be an adult; drinking alcohol, being independent, living by himself and caring for Phoebe but isn’t ready to immerse himself into it. The concept of teenage hood was only created in the 1950’s His disillusionment towards his childhood is because he was disappointed by it and therefore stuck in a childlike