-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 Catcher in the Rye", a novel by JD Salinger, is a bildungsroman, which means that it shows the stages of a young character growing up, and becoming mature. However, this novel is actually about trying to escape this infamous compulsory stage of life, in order to …showed first 75 words of 1371 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1371 total…far apart as he believed them to be, yet linked by another realm in which is in between the two- adolescence. Despite the fact that he has not fully completed the transition of childhood into adulthood, Holden is in a much more fitting position, and more relaxed state of mind at the end of the novel, than at the beginning. Bibliography: Sparknotes, Themes, Motifs, and Symbols, Online http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/catcher/themes.html