How does J.D Salinger use the character of Holden Caulfield to explore :: English Literature

How does J.D Salinger use the character of Holden Caulfield to explorethe issues related to maturation up?The catcher in the Rye was written in the late 1940s and firstpublished in a magazine in 1947. The novel is like a bildungsroman butonly consists of two and a half days in the life of a 17 year old boycalled Holden Caulfield, although he argues that the moderate is not abouthis lousy childhood. Holden seems to be very conscious of this anddoesnt want it to be all that David Copperfield kind of crap.Nevertheless the obtain is an insight into a young mans brain.Salinger creates Holden Caulfields idiolect with all thecolloquialisms and swearing, which resulted in the book being bannedin many states of America. Holden is very unfold and does not refrainfrom sharing some of his views on society and the war. At the time ofpublishing, America was experiencing very rich, prosperous, affluentyears. Hollywood was the worlds best film effort and somethingAmerica was very proud of and enjoyed, Everybody was on their way tothe movies but Holden couldnt stand looking at them, this was abig dig at American society and became very controversial. Holdendoesnt hold back his political views either, Im sort of gladtheyve got the atomic bomb invented. If theres other war, Imgoing to sit right the hell on top of it. Due to the contextual timeof post WW2 this was deeply shocking and crazy many people, theatomic bomb had killed millions of innocent people and thousands hadrelatives lost in the war. At this time America was veryanti-communism but Holden hints anti-capitalist views, Goddamn money.It always ends up making you feel blue as hell, and he often wears ared hunting hat which could have easily symbolized a communist. Thiswas excessively a contributing factor to the shock this gave Americansociety. However these are just the views of a teenager and all ispart of J.D Salinger exploring the confused, rebellious thoughts ofsomeone growing up.Salinger explores the issu es of growing up in many different ways.Most of them contradict themselves at some point as well, portrayingthe confusion and unsettled mind of an adolescence. One of these mainissues is Holdens longing to gain independence. This is seen fromearly on in the book and is carried on throughout. The first mainexample of Holden wanting to attain freely with independence is when hedecides hed get the hell out of Pency...not wait till Wednesdaywhen he is supposed to break up from his embarkation school.