Changes In The Catcher In The Rye, By J. D. Salinger

As time flies, people change, cities change, priorities change, and most importantly life changes. There is nothing in life that will stay the way it is without any changes because change is inevitable in reality. In fact, it is impossible to control our lives because sometimes there could be major changes without being told beforehand. All we can do is just take each day as it comes and accepts it in a positive manner. Some people prefer spending their lives doing the same exact things like a routine in their life and avoid change. In J. D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, he demonstrates how the main character, Holden Caulfield, fights to keep things the way it is and tries to stop himself from growing up. In life, change is

John’s University, I totally understand why Holden does not like the idea of changing. The changes in my life became the biggest struggle for me as I transitioned to college from high school. With all honesty, my whole life kind of felt like it flipped and got twisted around. I did not like change at all just like Holden did not like it because I feared that I had to start my life from scratch and nothing will be normal again. For instance, I had to learn to live with two more people in the same room which I was never used to and I had to adjust my schedule according to theirs. Ever since I was born, I grew up in a big house with a room to myself and adjusting to a life of having little space to me became a struggle. Also, for the first time, I have to live far away from my family and since I am in college, I could only see my family few times in the semester which is very hard, but I just have to accept that has part of life. Another major change was when I have to be dependent on myself for everything and I can no longer count on my parents to do the things I needed to do. To demonstrate, my parents would drive me to the places I would have to go, but now the buses and the subway became my source of transportation. Clearly, through these changes, I am not ready to grow up, but life would not allow me to stay in my childhood forever; hence, I would need to learn to pick up the new life and make it my own. Even though the beginning started off rough with different changes I had to adapt to, I kind of started to like it and I believe that everything will be alright because everyone has to grow up one day or