Why does Holden fear adulthood?

Why is Holden afraid of adults? The catcher of rye novel is scheduled for the 1950's and is said by a small boy named Holden Colefield of 16 years old. He tells the story between the end of the semester and Christmas holidays. We know that he is in a mental hospital and is talking about when he lived in New York. Holden Caulfield is a person who feels the need to control everything in life, but problems arise when he finds himself during his transition from childhood to adulthood.

Throughout the novel, Holden is afraid that he will grow and collapse as he moves to adulthood. He thinks that they do not want other children to experience the "hypocrisy" of the world and to degenerate into society. In a conversation with Phoebe, Holden said he wants to be a catcher of rye and want to save the child so as not to fall out of the cliff. Becoming a captor of rye is a metaphor of Holden 's dream of rescuing children in the adult fantasy world. At the end of the novel, Holden met Phoebe. And he planned to travel west with her elder brother. Holden initially disappointed to tell her she could not accompany him. Then Holden told Phoebe that he decided to change his mind and stay in the house. After that Holden and Phoebe went to the zoo, and Phoebe insisted on riding a carousel. Holden sat on the bench and Phobe of Carousel and other children tried to reach for the ring of gold

How does Holden experience maturation? In other words, how mature is he from the beginning of the book to the end?

Instead of admitting adult panic and mystery, Holden invented the illusion that adulthood is a superficial and hypocritical ("hypocritical") world, childhood is simple, curious, sincere world Did. I can not imagine the children of this world beyond my imagination like an idyllic black wheat field where children play with their childhood playing. For example, it is the same as death - a fatal fall at the edge of the cliff -. He deepened his understanding of childhood and adulthood and made it possible for Holden to cover himself with cynical protective clothing. As the book goes forward, however, the experience of Holden, especially Mr. Antoine and Mr. Phoebe, revealed the shallowness of his idea.

Holden's curiosity for the central park duck is related to his own adult anxiety. As ducks faced difficult times during the winter, Holden was at peak of his adolescence and was entering a difficult period of adulthood. Holden asked the taxi driver about the duck: "Someone picks them up on a truck or something, they fly away - meaning going to the South or something" (82). Howton's question about what the duck did in the winter foresaw Holden's own plans. Holden wants to know if the purpose is to fly south to escape the cold and winter hardships. Just as Holden moves to the west to get rid of the sound and escape adult suffering. Or, if they rely on care of their parents like a truck to save them and take them away, as Holden relies on them leaving their children.