Part 1 of Essay
Holden is a complex person with many conflicting characteristics. He has many ambitions and desires for his life but he is faced with the basic conflict in the story, corruption. This corruption is what drives him and at the same time restricts him Holden's being surrounded by corruption disgusts him. There are a fe ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... we have to grow up and how he ties adulthood with corruption just shows how he has a large problem determining illusion from reality. He doesn't understand that to grow does not mean to become corrupt but to become wiser through experience. These experiences are what frighten Holden because this boy of sixteen has already been involved in many of the pleasures and problems that come from these experiences. Holden's "catcher in the rye" analogy shows how he wants to save the children from this corruption but he ....