Throughout the novel Holden continuously makes references about how he wants to preserve the innocence that children possess. He wants to save them from falling into the world of adulthood, full of phonies. He wants to shield them from the horrible things that exist in the real world. Holden admires people who are innocent such as Phoebe, the Nuns, and Allie. He remembers Jane as innocent and is unable to re-contact her, in fear that her innocence has been lost. This wanting to preserve innocence is evident when Holden gets so upset about the swear words written on the walls of Phoebe’s school. “Somebody’d written “Fuck you” on the wall. It drove me near crazy… I kept wanting to kill whoever’d written it” (Salinger, p 201) If children see this written on the walls they will wonder what is means and will probably find out from the wrong people and get t

Throughout the novel Holden learns how to compromise and abandon his ideals. When he did this he learned how to live and cope in the real world. Sometimes ideals need this done to them to better adapt to the world around you.

In order to live in the real world Holden needs to abandon his ideal of being able to escape it. He ends up doing this after his idea about going out west. He tells Phoebe he is going to go home and that is what he planed to do. “ In the first place, I’m not going away anywhere, I told you. I’m going home. ” (Salinger, p 208) When Holden says to Phoebe he is going back home he was starting to realize that he has to live in the real world, and abandons his ideal of living in a fantasy world.

In the novel Holden has two ideals of escaping to his fantasy world. He wants to escape the corrupted world and go to a secluded place where everything is perfect, according to Holden. The first time he wants to go with Sally. He wants her to come with him to Massachusetts and Vermont. Sally of course says no because she feels the idea is somewhat crazy. “ In the first place we’re both practically children. And did you ever stop to think what you’d do if you didn’t get a job when your money ran out? We’d starve to death. ” (Salinger, p 132) The second escape ideal Holden gets is disrupted by Phoebe. Holden’s idea this time is to hitch hike out west pretending to be a deaf mute. He wants to live in a cabin by the edge of the woods and one day marry another deaf mute. When Phoebe finds out about Holden’s plan she packs her suitcase. She refuses to let him go without her. “ “Why can’t I? Please, Holden! I won’t do anything- I’ll just go with you, that all!” ” (Salinger. P 206) Because Phoebe did this Holden told her he would not go.

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