The Catcher in the Rye is a novel written by J. Holden Caulfield is the protagonist who tells the story of "this madman stuff that happened to me around last christmas"(Salinger,1). It is a very popular novel that frequently provokes strong reactions .
both positive and negative. Salinger wanted to capture the identity crises which many young .
adults of Holden's age are caught in. he focuses on the character development. Holden .
narrates its own story from a psychiatric facility a few month after it. The story cover a time .
period of about three days which are greatly important as they relate the passage from his .
youth into maturity. Though his innocence has already been lost, he still hopes to protect .
others children from knowing about adult subjects. Throughout the book, he will change and .
will become much more mature, although his perception of the world as a corrupt and "phony" .
place is not modified. .
Holden's central goal is to resist to the process of maturity and to resist to the .
hypocrisy of the adult world. He is an atypical adolescent with special needs. Two traumas .
put him in an emotional statue: the death of his brother Allie and the suicide of one of his .
schoolmates therefore he suffers from depression which stems from a desire not to grow up. .
Traumatized, holden is terrified by the idea of change and disappearance; the symbols of the .
ducks in Central Park symbolize that change is not permanent. Even if they leave the lack .
every winter, they return every spring; therefore, some vanishing are temporary. It is a direct .
result of his inability to come to adult world. These had made him suicidal: "What I really felt .
like, though, was committing suicide" (Salinger,104). He is extremely immature and has a .
fixation on childhood. For him, it is a world of innocence, curiosity, and honesty. His.
glorification of children, his admiration of Phoebe (his youngest sister), his idealization of his.