Catcher in the Rye Analysis - is holden more a boy or a man?

The Catcher in the Rye is a novel that deals with a troubled boy named Holden Caulfield. He tells the story from a mental asylum, of how he is never applying himself and getting kicked out of schools. The book deals with many of Holden's problems including depression, individuality, deception, but mainly maturity.

Holden seemed very intellectual through out the book, even though Pencey was the fourth school he had attended and flunked out of. It was obvious Holden had problems from the beginning of the book but he was such a peculiar character that never handled his emotions, so it was hard to distinguish what was really wrong with him. At the beginning of the book it seemed as though he was

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