“I felt so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe kept going around and around. I was damn near bawling, I felt so damn happy, if you want to know the truth” (Salinger 213). While Salinger writes with sloppy syntax and crude diction, his descriptions of emotions leave a great impact on the reader. Though his words are si

Salinger’s simplistic way of expressing emotions is also used to address the issues that adolescents must deal with. The issue that is most commonly dealt with adolescents that is addressed in The Catcher in the Rye is the loss of innocence. Without sugar coating his words to ruin their true meaning, Salinger stays grounded as he blatantly writes about the delicate subject. Although many adolescents, like Holden, may not recognize how their dilemmas are created because they find themselves trying to make adult decisions with the mentality of a child. When they try to take on the mentality of an adult, they lose the securities of being a child. This exposes them to the harsh reality of life which they can not handle. An example of Holden’s loss of innocence creating dilemmas for him was when he was thinking about sex and how he almost lost his virginity. “The thing is, most of the time when you’re coming pretty close to doing it with a girl-a girl that isn’t a prostitute or anything, I mean-she keeps telling you to stop. The trouble with me is, I stop. Most guys don’t. I can’t help it” (Salinger 92). In situations like the one just explained, Holden and other adolescents feel alienated. The alienation stems from their fears of pursuing what is expected of them from popular culture instead of what they expect from

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