Catcher In The Rye Guidance

The Catcher in the rye is a book written by J.D Salinger. The book is about a rebellious teenager named Holden Caulfield. Holden is lost in life and struggles to find his way out depression. J.D Salinger shows in this book the true value of having guidance in your life when one grows up. Guidance will keep one from from being lost in life. Salinger shows the importance of having guidance early on in the book. In the beginning of Holden’s story, Holden explains how he acts quite young for his age.”Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes”( 9). Holden has been to many different schools apart from Pencey and at 17 he is acting immature. By showing the audience Holden acts really immature for his age, Salinger is demonstrating the lack of guidance boarding schools have given Holden. Salinger introduces Holden's older brother,D.B fairly early in the book as a writer in Hollywood. Holden tells the readers D.B became a writer after “He wrote this terrific book of short stories” (1) called The Secret Goldfish. Also, in page 140 Holden tells the reader that D.B was in the army for four years. Holden goes in and
Holden is talking to Phoebe and he explains how he wants to be The catcher in the rye. “Anyway, i keep picturing all these little kids playing...I know it's crazy.”(173). Holden tells Phoebe he wants to be the person who catches little kids when they can't see where they are going and fall off the rye field. He means he wants to be the one who helps kids without guidance. Holden sees childhood like running through a rye field. One can’t see where they are going through a rye field and you become lost, like in life. Then when a cliff comes up you fall off, Holden sees this cliff as adulthood. As a kid, you're running all over the place and without guidance, you fall off the cliff when going into