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No Innocence in Catcher in the rye         Probably the greatest badin time of the new(a) is the f strike that, despite his warmth of childhood innocence, H middle-ageden is and acts far from innocent himself. In fact, he is its antithesis. He acts that route for many reasons. First of all, he has so many responsibilities. Second, he never fits in with the crowd, and finally, he never gets any real help for the problems that he deals with.         Holden does have a love for childhood innocence as seen across the book. For example, on summon two hundred and one Somebodyd written do it you on the wall. It drove me damn near crazy. I thought how vanadium and all the other little kids would see it, and how theyd wonder what the hell it meant, and then(prenominal) finally some dirty kid would tell them-cockeyed naturally- what it meant, and how theyd all infer well-nigh it and maybe even worry about it for a pair off of days. I kept wanting to kill whoeverd written it... But I rubbed it The fuck you written on the wall out anyway. Another example is on page two hundred and eight, So shut down up. It was the first time she Phoebe ever told me to shut up. It sounded terrible. God, it sounded terrible. It sounded worse than  swearing. There is one more outstanding quotation from the novel which is found on page two hundred and thirteen. I tangle so damn happy all of a sudden, the way old Phoebe was going around and around the carousel. All these examples clearly place that Holden appreciated childhood innocence to a great extent. Yet Holden acts the opposite.         The irony in this novel is Holdens behavior, which is far from being innocent. He smokes, drinks, always depressed, thinks about suicide, thinks about going embarking to a far place, and has people tell and act in many weird ways. There are three principal(prenominal) reasons why he acts this way. Fir stly, Holden being only sixteen years of age already has so much responsibility. He has to get money for feed and travel. When he travels he has to make sure he doesnt get lost, and rattling gets there. He has to make sure that he doesnt flunk school.