It is sometimes difficult for children to realize when is time to mature and grow out of childhood. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is a coming of age novel about sixteen year old Holden Caulfield’s weekend adventure. Salinger describes Holden's extreme depression, his beliefs that just about every adult is a phony, and his protection of innocence. Holden’s most significant character flaw is him being stuck in childlike views. Some instances in Holden’s life that prove that he is stuck in childlike views is Holden's idea of putting things into a glass case so they never change, Holden hating the phoniness of the adult world, and Holden’s main focus to protect the innocence of children.
Holden has an idea of putting things into a glass case so that they can never change. Holden is looking for his sister. He asks one of her friends where she is, and she says that his sister is on a school trip to the Museum of Natural History. She soon remembers that the trip was the day before. Holden decides to go to the museum anyway to reminisce:
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still …show more content…
Nothing ever changes in the museum. He feels as if he is the young child again, the young innocent child who came for class trips in grammar school. Holden sees the museum as an escape from the cruel adult world. Holden is attempting to go back to the easy innocent childhood. In Lingdi Chen's article titled “An Analysis of the Adolescent Problems in The Catcher in the Rye,” she explains that Holden's main character trait is children and protection of innocence. Holden looks up to anyone who, just like him, believes in the protection of innocence. Chen explains that Holden's main enemy is the adult world, because he thinks they are all
Holden has an idea of putting things into a glass case so that they can never change. Holden is looking for his sister. He asks one of her friends where she is, and she says that his sister is on a school trip to the Museum of Natural History. She soon remembers that the trip was the day before. Holden decides to go to the museum anyway to reminisce:
The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still …show more content…
Nothing ever changes in the museum. He feels as if he is the young child again, the young innocent child who came for class trips in grammar school. Holden sees the museum as an escape from the cruel adult world. Holden is attempting to go back to the easy innocent childhood. In Lingdi Chen's article titled “An Analysis of the Adolescent Problems in The Catcher in the Rye,” she explains that Holden's main character trait is children and protection of innocence. Holden looks up to anyone who, just like him, believes in the protection of innocence. Chen explains that Holden's main enemy is the adult world, because he thinks they are all