Examples Of Adolescence In Catcher In The Rye

Everybody in the world has feelings, that's just the way it is and we can’t really do anything about it. Adolescence is a time when lots of problems come up in people’s lives. This is relevant in Holden Caulfield’s life especially. After failing out of every school he has been to, he faces adult life and spends a couple days in new york city, where bustling crowds and new faces trigger different feelings in him, especially loneliness, anger, and, strangely enough, sexual identity. The catcher in the rye gives us reason to believe that an adolescent in the 20th century deals with the same type of stuff a teenager in the present day might have to.
There are quite a few times when he gets in a situation that he doesn't know how to deal with, like when he gets the prostitute. Back when holden lived, it
Sunny was her name, although she may have been unready, “she was nervous for a prostitute, she really was. I think it was because she was young as hell”(105), she surely knew that she wanted to get down to business. But holden, being new to the situation goes ahead and says “Don't you feel like talking for a while? I asked her. It was a childish thing to say”. Holden says this because he is in a very lonely part of his life, he has been in new york for two days and rarely gets to talk to anyone unless he makes plans with them or strikes up a conversation. Therefore he would have to try and talk to her unless he was going to go insane. His loneliness Becomes apparent in other situations as well, Like when he asks his cab driver for a drink, “well, take me to the Edmont then," I said. "Would you care to stop on the way and join me for a cocktail? On me, I'm loaded . . . He certainly was terrific