Catcher in the rye

Holden Caulfield seems like a typical romantic hero in search of a simple truth.
Actually, Holden is in escape from falsehood rather than in search of truth, and his sensitivity to the failures of the world is compounded with his self-disgust. In The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, Holden Caulfield views the world as an evil, phony, and corrupt place, where there is no peace and understanding. Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change the world and unable to forever protect both, young children and himself, from growing up.
Throughout the novel Holden is constantly trying to escape from the falsehood and cruelty of the environment around him. Holden Caulfield is a sixteen year old who experiences challenging and questionable events in the mid-stage of his adolescence. He is no longer a boy, but not yet an adult. He is in the transitory period where one has to find himself in the new world. Holden wants to keep things unchanged; he wants to keep ...