Catcher in the rye: Corruption in Innocence

As humans age, they lose their innocence and become corrupted. There is one point in time between the changes from child to adult, the child loses its innocence. In novel, Holden realizes that innocence cannot be protected forever. Everything that he is innocent becomes corrupted. He learns that it is ones innocence cannot be held forever. In J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye Holden Caulfield portrays that innocence cannot be protected …

…into complete insanity at the end. The corruption in society is the reason Holden Caulfield eventually goes insane. Everything he found innocent eventually became corrupted and he failed from stopping the corruption. Salinger message is that the corruption in society cannot be stopped. It is human nature to have greed, lust and other things. Innocence can be withheld for a period of time, but the crossover to adulthood, which represents evil and corruption, is inevitable.