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Becoming one of the most banned, censored, and challenged novels during the years of 1966 to 1975 for its’ explicit narration from an adolescent perspective, “The Catcher in the Rye’s” Holden Caulfield is one of the most intricate and controversial characters ever written. Amidst his own confusion during his passage from adolescence to adulthood, Holden Caulfied serves as an advocate for the non adults; the museum Holden visits while at stay in New York City can be a symbolic representation for the preservation of innocence that Holden Caulfield longs for. Becoming one of the most banned, censored, and challenged novels during the years of 1966 to 1975 for its’ explicit narration from an adolescent perspective, “The Catcher in the Rye’s” Holden Caulfield is one of the most intricate and controversial characters ever written. Holden Caulfield’s accurate portrayal of teenage angst can be the result of suffering from symptoms of manic depression. Readers are often torn between feeling sympathy or feeling annoyance to the disputed character, Holden Caulfield. As Holden begins his narrative about all the: “madman stuff that happened to me around last Christmas just before I got pretty run-down and had to come out here and take it easy” (1), it’s established that his mental health is deteriorating. While Holden narrates his stay in New York City he discusses the “phoniness of the adult world” and shows his desire to never grow old. Allie’s death is one of the major incidences that effect Holden’s resistance to adulthood.