Caulfield Called Away From the Field
"I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be," Holden explains to Phoebe (173). The only job Holden can see himself doing is saving children from falling off a cliff or growing up because Holden idealizes the innocence and no shame children possess; and he, himself, wants to return to that state of mind. Holden's wanting to preserve the purity of children, shows his "coming of age" because he soon realizes his roles and responsibility and how the inevitable is adulthood.
As Holden watched a little boy and "his parents [who] paid no attention to him," walk down the street, he saw that the little boy, despite not being noticed, "just kept walking next to the curb [and] singing" (115). Holden was "feel[ing] better" by this sight because he saw that this little child was in his own world (115). No matter what was going on, cars driving by him, parents not concerned about him, the little boy could escape to this imaginary......

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Title: Catcher In The Rye
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