The Catcher In The Rye

In J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, the main character is depicted as a sixteen-year-old boy who wants to be the savior of children's innocence. Holden is always afraid of change and wants everything in his life to stay the same, as it was when he was younger. Holden desires to be "the catcher in the rye," and explicates this when he says, "...I keep picturing all of these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all...I'm standing at the edge of some crazy cliff...I have to catch everybody if they start to come over the cliff...I'd just be the catcher in the rye a…