![]() ![]() It is implied that he wants to have sex, and has had multiple opportunities, but never quite came around to actually taking action. His virginity, his disparity over his sexuality, and his censorship of sex all encapsulate his immaturity and teenage angst. One way Holden personifies the frustrations of clinging to youth is through sex, or the lack thereof. Adulthood is the choice of a career, a formed personality, and acting in ways that your younger self would not tolerate. Caulfield is a manchild of sorts he is a child not having selected adulthood yet. Even the title The Catcher in the Rye originated from Holden’s misinterpretation a sexual poem, hearing ‘if a body meet a body’ as ‘if a body catch a body’ (Salinger 224). Salinger heavily probes the theme of sexuality – specifically, Holden Caulfield’s immense turbulence over it.
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