The Catcher In The Rye The book "The Catcher In The Rye" is a tale which weaves into the readers mind all the nostalgia and decisions of childhood. The main character in the novel, Holden Caulifield, is a yound man of about 16 years who is finding it hard to escape his childhood and become an adult. Holden believes that everyone in the adult world is a "fake" or a "phony." He also believes that the …showed first 75 words of 1692 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1692 total…to critisize everything adults do as self-serving, but he cannot still connect with young children the way he once could, in this stage, it is where Holden is most unhappy, and it is where he will remain unless he decided to change his ways. This is a fate which anyone could fall victim to, if you begin to only see the dull and boring things in people, instead of the things which make life great.