Childhood vs adulthood catcher in the rye

Question: Think about Holden’s vision of the nature of childhood and adulthood. Are the two realms as separate as Holden believes them to be? Where does he fit in?

The novel Catcher In The Rye is about a teenage boy’s growth into maturity. The theme of the story is the painfulness of growing up and in it Holden’s goal is to resist the process of maturing. He fears change and is overwhelmed by complexity, and because of this he invents two fantasy worlds; one for childhood, and one for adulthood.
Holden believes that childhood is all about inno...