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1、The Painfulness of Growing UpAccording to most analyses, The Catcher in the Rye is a bildungsroman, a novel about a young characters growth into maturity. While it is appropriate to discuss the novel in such terms, Holden Caulfield is an unusual protagonist for a bildungsroman because his central go
2、al is to resist the process of maturity itself. As his thoughts about the Museum of Natural History demonstrate, Holden fears change and is overwhelmed by complexity. He wants everything to be easily understandable and eternally fixed, like the statues of Eskimos and Indians in the museum. He is fri
3、ghtened because he is guilty of the sins he criticizes in others, and because he cant understand everything around him. But he refuses to acknowledge this fear, expressing it only in a few instancesfor example, when he talks about sex and admits that “sex is something I just dont understand. I swear
4、 to God I dont” (Chapter 9).Instead of acknowledging that adulthood scares and mystifies him, Holden invents a fantasy that adulthood is a world of superficiality and hypocrisy (“phoniness”), while childhood is a world of innocence, curiosity, and honesty. Nothing reveals his image of these two worl
5、ds better than his fantasy about the catcher in the rye: he imagines childhood as an idyllic field of rye in which children romp and play; adulthood, for the children of this world, is equivalent to deatha fatal fall over the edge of a cliff. His created understandings of childhood and adulthood all
6、ow Holden to cut himself off from the world by covering himself with a protective armor of cynicism. But as the book progresses, Holdens experiences, particularly his encounters with Mr. Antolini and Phoebe, reveal the shallowness of his conceptions.In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Sali
7、nger, the main character Holden Caulfield has many different kinds of relationship with different people. Some of them are very important for Holdens life because he likes and admires them; Holden also hates some of the people he has relationship with. Everyone who has a relationship with Holden aff
8、ects him which shows Holdens personality. The novel uses Holdens relationship with his siblings Phoebe, D.B., and Allie to show different parts of Holdens character.Phoebe is Holdens 10-year-old sister. The relationship between Phoebe and Holden shows Holden likes children and his role as a protecto
9、r of innocence. Holden loves Phoebe very much. In the novel, Phoebe represents all of the not phony things in the world, and also childrens innocence. Holden goes to see Phoebe at late one night in D.B.s room and explains to her his dream job: I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game
10、 in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobodys around-nobody big, I mean-expect me. And Im standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff- I mean if theyre running and they dont look where theyre goi
11、ng I have to come out from somewhere and catch them.ld just be the catcher in the rye and all. (Page 173)To protect children and innocence is the basic theme of the novel. Holden has a kind and innocent heart, and he thinks only children are not phony, therefore, he likes them and wants to protect t
12、hem from danger. When Holden goes to the carrousel with Phoebe he describes, “l felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around.” (Page 213). He watched Phoebe on the carrousel and he felt so happy, as a result, children make him happy for their innocence. However
13、, there is a person in Holdens family, who Holden thinks is phony.Holden thinks his elder brother, D.B. is phony. “Now hes out in Hollywood, D.B., being a prostitute. lf theres one thing l hate, its the movies. Dont even mention them to me” (Page 2). D.B is phony because he writes for movies and onl
14、y to make money, not for intellectual redemption. Holden hates movies, as he thinks movies are phony. Holden thinks people are not real in the movies, they just act, even like they do in the real world. All the people Holden meets are phony and everyone lies, so he feels depressed and lonesome in th
15、is world. Therefore, Holden hates phony things, but he cant change them. ln addition, he thinks himself is also phony as he grows up and loses his innocence. But, Holden also loves his another sibling who is not phony.Holdens younger brother, “Allie” shows Holdens loneliness. Holden loves Allie and
16、misses him very much. Holden thinks Allie is brilliant, smart, friendly, and not phony. He sees him as a perfect person. Unfortunately for Holden, Allie died of leukemia three years before the story begins. “l slept in the garage the night he died, and l broke all the goddam windows with my fist” (Page 39). Allies death makes Holden feel a tremendous loss. Holden is actually very lonely. He feels no one understands him and he has no one to talk to,
