Examples Of Growing Up In Catcher In The Rye

Facing the struggles of growing up are Inescapable. The Catcher In The Rye is a novel about Holden Caulfield, a teen about to face the upcoming struggles of exiting adolescence and becoming an adult. Salinger, the author of this novel, intensified Holden’s struggles as he processed to transition out of his old life. Holden will not dwell on his own struggles but Salinger makes it impossible for Holden problems to be kept a secret. In the Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden struggles with accepting the transition from childhood to adulthood, eventually coming to terms that growing up is inevitable.
J.D. Salinger emphasized the struggle of Holden's uncertainty and curiosity of the future using the ducks by the lagoon in the novel. The

The connection Holden held with this hat was strong, Holden felt as if he could escape the reality of growing up and the struggles that come upon it while he wore this hat. This red hunting had brought Holden a sense of security and protection from society's further influence on Holdens adolescence. Salinger wrote that Holden put his “red hunting hat on, and turned the peak around to the back, the way I liked it, and then I yelled at the top of my goddam voice, "Sleep tight, ya morons!" I'll bet I woke up every bastard on the whole floor” (Salinger 29). The red hunting hat gave him confidence and freedom to act how we wanted without thinking about any consequences that he could potentially face. Salinger makes it looks as if Holden has found an escape from the struggles of growing up, but really he just emphasizes how much Holden is really struggling and uses the red hat as his temporary

Throughout the novel Holden questions what his purpose in life is and often wondered what he would become later on. Holden has no strict destination or thought of what he could be, all he knew was he was struggling and wouldn't wish the struggles he faced upon anyone. Toward the end of the novel Holden “kept picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them”(Salinger 93). Holden knew he wanted to protect children from going through all the struggles of adolescence and