FratFiles

• Save Paper

The theme of adulthood soaks the texts of both The Catcher in the Rye and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, two of the most acclaimed American novels in history. In The Catcher in The Rye, Holden Caulfield is leading a melodramatic struggle into adulthood. The fact that Holden is resistant to growing up is evident throughout the text. Huck, on the other hand, is a child. He is open minded, innocent, and carefree. Though his situation is a much more strenuous one than seen in most adult's lives, he seems to handle his circumstances with ease.

Salinger creates an extremely dismal view of the adult life. This is the reason that Holden is constantly jumping over the line form adulthood, and back into childhood. Holden believes very deeply that adults are hypocritical, shallow, ostentatious, and idiotic. He describes all of these feelings into one word that he uses continually. Holden sees the adult world as just a bunch of phonies. He also determines that the adults are so phony,......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 1071
Approximate Pages: 5 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Adultism In Catcher In The Rye &Amp; Huckleberry Finn
   

   Adultism In Catcher in the Rye & Huckleberry Finn The theme of adulthood soaks the texts of both The Catcher in the Rye and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, two of the most

2. The Catcher And The Rye / Huckleberry Finn
   

   The Catcher and the Rye / Huckleberry Finn The American Webster's dictionary defines innocence as, "Freedom from harmfulness; inoffensiveness." Although this definition is the one

3. 
   

4. 
   

5.