How Does The Catcher In The Rye Change

Change is the act of becoming different and it is something that is inevitable which one goes through as time passes. However, deliberately trying to protect others from approaching the adult world can implicate harm to themselves and others around them. In the novel, The Catcher In The Rye written by JD Salinger, Holden Caulfield narrates his own story and how he struggles with accepting the fact that change everyone must go through is imminent.
On the second day he ran away, he decides to make plans to meet with Sally, a friend who he has known for a long time. On his way to his date, he passes a museum he visited as a child and with Allie. Seeing this nostalgic place causes him to reminisce about his past visit with his brother and classmates. During this scene he recalls, “The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. …show more content…
This shows Holden’s desires to want time to stop and to want the actual world to be uncomplicated and idealistic, the version of his fantasy life that Holden craves to live in. The ‘everything’ that stays where it is, symbolizes Holden’s fascination towards his world of fantasy where the innocent will forever be innocent and that the adults will stay in the adult word. He wants time to stop so that everyone will stop growing up. The innocence that the symbolism refers to is specifically the ones that he loves and is trying to protect. Just like how the things in the museum is frozen, he wants to freeze certain moments/memories of Allie, and entirely preserve Phoebe’s innocence. Throughout the novel he has met many ‘phonies’ who are adults and view them as fake and dishonest, which