People all around the world are becoming infatuated with the lives of others. Anyone can go on the internet now and look up any detail about anyone life and with enough digging and research you could find out every aspect of that person's life. In The Catcher in the Rye written by J.D. Salinger existential beliefs, like being your own person and focusing on your life and your own path are broughten up throughout the novel. Throughout the novel Holden Caulfield portrays maturity and childness while trying to break the norms of society. Proposing to a person is considered an adult motion and Holden proposes to Sally but not in the way most adults would have. Holden is on a date with Sally and they are at Radio City ice skating they leave the ice and start talking and Holden starts talking about running away together. Holden goes into detail about what him and Sally would be doing if they ran away together the next morning and after all the excitement rushing through him he ends the thought with “we could get married or something” (Salinger 132). In the world a man is expected to get on one knee and give a small speech before asking his significant other to marry him. The way Holden asked Sally was to run away with him from the rest of the world. He wanted to marry Sally and become ostracized in …show more content…
Holden finally got home and he went to go say hi to Phoebe and they got to talking about the things that Holden would like to be. Phoebe suggests becoming a lawyer like their father. Holden said he did not want to and his reasoning was “[h]ow would you know you weren't being a phony? The trouble is, you wouldn’t” (Salinger 172). The childness within Holden is being portrayed within him not wanting to become a lawyer and dancing around the reasoning until he comes to the conclusion of not knowing whether or not he was being a