Saturday, August 26, 2017
'Fear of Change in The Catcher in the Rye'
'J.D. Salingers novel, The backstop in the rye whiskey, explores the deportment of a cynical teenager, Holden Caulfield, who is stuck between childishness and big(a)hood. Salinger highlights that Holdens goal is to live on the process of maturity and entering with child(p)hood. This is show and demonstrated by Holdens persistent dread of interchange, his strong assurance on the phonies of adult world, his difficulty of go on from the prehistorical and his impulsive personality. Holdens venerate of change appends to his opposite of the process of maturity. This is because Holden considers decorous mature a substantial change in his manners and he, therefore, resists it. When Holden hired a prostitute, he accomplished that having sex with a prostitute would contribute to his progress to maturity date. Therefore, he attempted to situate out of it by diverting the topics of the conversations he had with the prostitute, even though he knew it was a childish thing. It i s noneworthy that Holden never outright mentioned that he dislike sex; He merely says that he was feeling so damn peculiar. His thoughts close the museum of Natural register demonstrate his idolize of change. That is, he likes how everything everlastingly stayed right where it was. The museum represents his liking for things to stay the same. Ultimately, he does not emergency to transform into an adult, because he is fearful of the adult world and how contrary it is to the childhood. Also, he does not want some other children to grow up. This is presented through his misinterpretation of The catcher in the Rye poem. He says that he wants to catch children who pouch to go make the cliff, when the poem is real about the sex. Holden cant buy the farm on from childhood and cant change his impoverished mindset.\nHolden holds adulthood in disdain because of its shallowness and phoniness. Holden invented phoniness in adulthood to protect himself from growing up and to debate him a scapegoat, to censure the adults. After all, Holden believes that adults argon ...'
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