The Catcher in the Rye involves an older teenager named Holden, who expresses his immaturity. “‘Our youth today has no moorings, no criterion beyond instinct, no railing to grasp along the steep ascent to maturity.’” (Peterson 1). Younger people are known as childish and illiterate, who only want an enjoyable lifestyle. Becoming an adult is not a part of Holden’s agenda. Instead, he would rather live his high school career as a child than a boy that is morphing into an adult. Present-day, Holden has shown countless times of his immaturity as an adolescent boy alternatively to a matured adult. For instance, when Holden returns to the hotel and enters the elevator, he bumps into a man called Maurice, who persuades him to purchase one of his