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He is stuck between being a child and an adult because his mindset is so caught up in keeping purified while asking his older friends about all of what he'd like to know, he tries to use his physical appearance as a bolster to make himself seem older but he's immature in the skin and this shows through with what he does daily because he wants people in certain places to see him as an adult but he hates the aspect of adults although he likes to try to be an adult.

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so he likes children because the kids make him happy .because he is so lonely

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Holden is stuck between childhood and adulthood because he has a very strong liking for kids, they make him happy and seem to amuse him. But he hates adults. He believes they are phonies and he wants nothing to do with them. He always has some sort of problem with one of his peers because he doesnt like the way that adults do things.

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Holden wants to take Sally to Vermont or Massachusetts and live away from people on their own. "'What we could do is drive up to Massachusetts or Vermont, and all around there, see... We'll stay in these cabins and stuff like that till the dough runs out... Later on we could get married or something."' (146) Holden is stuck between being a child and an adult because he tries to make adult decisions when they are more childish instead. Holden believes that he should leave and live with Sally because he is so lonely. However that is at the moment and he wants to be an adult and live by himself however he is still a child and believes all adults are "phonies"

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Holden shows that he is stuck between being a child and adult. Holden wants to be pure like the children are but he also want to be able to/ allowed to do all the things adults do. He is always trying to buy a drink at the bar and flirts with many older women. When Holden is walking to the park he observes a little boy walking on the said of the road. Holden admires how the boy was teetering on the edge of safety and danger and didn't even care. "He was just singing for the hell of it, you could tell"(128). Holden also enjoys doing things that adults do, like drinking, freedom, and flirting with older women. "Have just one more drink, I told him"(165). Holden constantly want to get a drink and is often flirting with older women.

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Holden is afraid of growing up because all the adults in his life were phonies so he acts childish to avoid accepting adulthood. He likes children because they haven't become phonies yet like most adults have.

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Holden is stuck between being a child and an adult because of his mature way of thinking but childish actions. He also contradicts himself various times trough the book, many that is already related to his personality like the use of the word "Phony". He likes to judge but don't want to be judged.

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Holden's declining mental state is shown when he  is beaten up by Maurice he has a fantasy of going downstairs shooting him and then getting patched up while holding a cigar then blamed it on the movies, showing how impressionable and violent Holden can be in outbursts against people he doesn't like. Alot like young children do throwing tantrums or wishing they could.

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Holden is stuck between being a child and an adult because of how he acts around adults.  While talking to the adults in the bar, he makes himself seem older by standing up to his full height and showing his grey hair, in order to get more drinks and to flirt with older women.  But acts immature while talking to the man who played the piano,  mentioning the attractive singer on stage and asking the man if he needed a manager.

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Holden's character expresses/shows that he is stuck between being a child and being an adult through his interactions with others.  Holden has a love for kids; in chapter 16, Holden meets a girl in central park while looking for his sister. He is able to interact easily and have conversation, while with other adults, Holden often finds himself arguing, judging, or unable to withstand normal communication. Holden's admiration for children also re appears when he sees the boy walking on the side of the road singing "when a body catch a body coming through the rye". These pieces of information support the fact that Holden is stuck between being an adult and being a child, because he admires the nature of young children, possibly how honest and direct they are, based on the people he has interacts with throughout his lifetime. Even though Holden is not a child, flirts with older women and tries to but himself drinks, a piece of him still admires childhood and youth, making him ambivilant between growing up and entering adulthood and responsibilites, or staying child-like and being care free. This situation may have resulted in the fact that Holden possibly feels that he did not recieve a childhood in his lifetime, so he is not ready to move on from something he never had, into the next part of his life.

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He is stuck because on page 123 he is having a very sophisticated conversation with the nun about what books he has read which makes him almost as an adult because there he is not acting childish. Yet, later in the chapter on page 125 he was very opinionated about catholics and how when someone brings up the idea of where is the closest church, they are always inferring if you are catholic which makes him seem young by not excepting others opinions.

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He holds onto the little details of things similar to what a child does. When he was sitting at the sandwich bar, alone he thought about his top of the line suitcase and how most people's are inexpensive. His first roommate at Pencey didnt like how Holden's suitcases were so nice. They bickered about such an unimportant detail and they switched rooms over it, a very childish thing to dislike one another about. (121-122)  Yet Holden sits by himself, independent like an adult does. His actions result in him being stuck between a child and an adult.

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Holden is stuck in between being a child and an adult. He has this love for kids, he thinks they are cute little bundles of hilarious innocence and he seems to think that all adults are Phony. But even thought he doesn't like adults he looks like one and admits it because he wouldn't be able to drink if he didn't look like an adult.

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he looks like an adult and has the views of a grown up person but acts childish in certain scenarios like with the unmade phone calls, he is like a child who always needs approval.

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Holden is stuck being between being a child and being an adult with how he thinks and feels about somethings like an adult would but acts very childish in others. An example of him acting like an adult is his attitude about innocence and feeling like he doesn't have it any more. He also acts very childish is how he spends all of his money without realizing it.

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How holden is stuck being a child and an adult is that when he wants to be an adult he decides to drink and then just gets way to drunk to realize what he's done chapter 19. And for when he want's to be a child because he love to interact with them just like he did with his sister when he wanted to give her the "little swirly beans" (127)record.

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Holden is stuck between a child and an adult because he acts very childish sometimes, like how he is always playing around and joking around with his friends back at Pencey (34). But he is also an adult sometimes like when he orders alcoholic drinks at bars like he did with Luce(158).

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How is Holden stuck between being a child and being an adult?  Consider all aspects of characterization:  physical appearance, actions, what he says, how he interacts with other characters, what other characters say about him.  Give evidence and briefly discuss.