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Troubled Holden in Catcher in the Rye           In J. D. Salingers The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield is visualized as a young, troubled individual. He tells us his accounting from the kind institution where he is currently residing.    Holden refuses to acknowledge his emotions in regard to the final stage of his br otherwise Allie. In reaction to Allies death, Holden hides from himself, his true feelings ab push through change, death and relationships with other people. He does non realize that his Allie died of leukemia three years before this story takes place. Holden speaks highly of his brother. He discusses how Allie was younger than him but fifty times as smart. Holden also tells us that Allie was much more mature for his age whence he should have been. This is the basis of Holdens fear of growth and change. The more you grow, the juxtaposed to death you find yourself and death is the ultimate change.            Reveling in innocence, perfectness, and being uninfluenced by change is the most comfortable pattern of living for Holden               In chapter 5 when Holden is waiting for Ackley to get             ready to go to town, he looks out of the window of his             room, opens it, and packs a snowball from the snow             on the window ledge. He begins to throw it at a parked             car, but doesnt because the car looked so nice and             pureness. Then he aims at a prove hydrant, but stops again             because that also looks too nice and white. Finally             he decides not to throw it at anything and closes the             window...What Holden sees through the window is for             him a visual embodiment of what he unconsciously             seeks a advance of Being which is distinct from the flux             of this world of Becoming, with its corruption, violence,             noise, decay and death. (Burrows 84)         When Holden talks to us about how much he loves the museum, he says that the museum is great because everything just stay behind a piece of glass and does not change. Some things should not change. He is really saying that he doesnt want to change the modal value Allie changed. Also, he says