Holden Caulfield's Change
The novel “The Catcher in the Rye”, by J.D. Salinger, details the story of 17 year-old Holden Caulfield. Holden is stuck between childhood and adulthood, and his outlook on life makes his transition even more difficult. By the end, Holden begins the process of change and starts to show some maturity, but still has not fully transitioned into adulthood. Holden’s process of change begins at the end. At the beginning, Holden recalls a time when Jane begins crying when he is at her house and says, “I don’t know why, but it bothered the hell out of me… then she really started to cry, and next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over”(Salinger 88). Holden says her crying bothered him because Holden feels the need to overly protect the people that