“Grow up” We’ve all heard it before. Maybe it was your parents or siblings who muttered it under their breath with dissatisfaction. You hated hearing it, but deep down you knew they were right. Holden, the main character, in J.D Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye fortifies the idea of preserving innocence throughout the novel. In an age where kids are trying their hardest to grow up as fast as they can, I agree with Holden. I think it is important to always have that childlike side to you, no matter how old you are. In one of the most memorable moments in the novel, we find Holden reminiscing about the eskimos in the glass box, that he used to see as a boy in the Natural History Museum. “The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything
