Catcher In The Rye Growing Up Analysis

When it comes to Holden’s struggle of growing up it presents itself, throughout the book, as Holden constantly running away from any implication of growing up. An example of Holden running away from adulthood is in chapter 16, Holden is walking through the museum and he stops to look at the Eskimos, “The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move.” That sentence is almost ironic in a way because even though he wants everything to stay the same, he’s still running away from adulthood and everything that growing up encompasses. Holden also has the urge to grow up in some situations, but he ends up reverting into secluding himself from society and the idea of growing up. A big reason