In the novel The Catcher in the Rye the protagonist of the story is a boy named Holden Caulfield, and he …show more content…
Holden cannot stand the amount of phonies that live there and he has no purpose there if he is failing every class. The day after Holden decides to meet up with an old friend of his Sally Hayes. Sally is one of the biggest phonies Holden ever meets but, he endures her company to not feel so lonely. They both go on a date and eventually go ice-skating, after that Holden asks Sally if she would run-away with him. Sally at first is stunned, but eventually produces an answer which is “no.” She produces this answer because she has already planned out to go college and to become something of importance in life. This part of the novel is in relation to Holden’s great journey to accepting adulthood. He eventually comes to some type of understanding why she came to that response, and realizes how unpractical the proposition he had offered Sally. The impracticality of the proposition at first doesn’t hit him as crazy but it influences Holden’s realization later …show more content…
His best way, is to find another person to vent to. Holden calls his friend Luce; he decides to call him for he can have an intellectual conversation with someone. Holden also wanted some type of joy from the perverse mind of Luce, but doesn’t get any. When Holden begins to talk to Luce he tries to remind him of the perverse conversations they used to have, but gets the complete opposite response. Luce say “when are you going to grow up,” the most hurtful words you could ever say to Holden at a time like that. This demonstrates, to Holden how even the most childish people of his life will inevitably mature. In this crucial scene Holden realizes h has nobody he can talk to. Another reason Holden comes closer to accepting the world of