CatcherintheRyetheNaivetyofChildhood英语论文.docCatcher in the Rye: the Naivety of Childhood Summary: Discusses . Salinger’s ’’Catcher in the Rye.” Describes main character Holden Caulfield’s fixation on childhood. Details how he struggles through teenage life because he cannot accept the responsibilities e with growing up. In the novel, ’The Catcher in the Rye” by Salinger,the main character,Holden,is a teenager who refuses to grow up because he is naively fixated on childhood. Throughout the novel, Holden struggles through teenage life because he cannot accept the given responsibilities e with growing up. Holden is obsessed with childhood because he chooses to be wedged between a world of the innocence of children and plex world of adulthood. Holden deities his two younger siblings as if they’re candidates for sainthood because of his fixation. Holden is a teenager who refuses to grow up because he is afraid of gaining the responsibilities e with it. So, Holden struggles hard to stay childish. For example, throughout the book, he does not want to take responsibility municate with others that may want to help him. He refuses to go home and confront his parents and face the consequences. Along with this,he also pulls the childish silent treatment toward his parents; because that’s the only knife he has to hurt them: ."..she wouldn’t’ve been the ones that answered the phone. My parents would be the ones. So that wa