In JD Salingers' Catcher in the Rye, a troubled teenager named Holden Caufield struggles with the fact that everyone has to grow up. Holden has a fixation on childhood, which shows itself in many forms. The idea of protect innocence of Holden Caulfield has been clearly shown throughout the book – The Catcher in the Rye by Holden’s misinterpretation of the song, his glorification of children, inordinate admiration of Phoebe, idealization of his dead younger …showed first 75 words of 856 total…

…showed last 75 words of 856 total…descriptive for him, he immediately thought about Allie’s baseball glove, and the poem on it. Throughout the book, Holden tried to save all children from growing up and losing their innocence. When he realized that he could not achieve this goal, he had a nervous breakdown and could not deal with it. However, it is an inevitable fact that everyone has to grow up, and Holden realizes that he cannot stop people from growing.