In Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield goes through many

events in just three days that seemed to impact his life a lot.

He began to realize things about himself, and changes

occurred within him. Now it's 35 years later and Holden has

grown up, and has finally entered the real world. Holden

now works for a high school as a student counselor, and

deals with problems of children everyday. He is very well

liked at the school and he has only been there for three

years. He sometimes gets attached with the students

dilemmas, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. He is also

the leader of the schools Students Reaching Out program.

Holden has enjoyed his job ever since he has started and

has never thought of leaving it. Holden now lives in the small

town of Wellingville in California. He is married to a women

he met when he went back to college and they have 2 kids,

both girls. One is 6 and the other is 3. Holden's wife has all

the qualities that Jane did. A very sweet women with a great

personality. They made a perfect couple. He has gave his

kids financial and emotional support that his own parents

never gave him. Cole Cuchna 12/2/99 Per7 He does this

because he doesn't want his kids to go through what he did

growing up. Holden has made many compromises as he has

grew up. Through his daily therapy he realized that he can't

be everything he wants to be. He can't save every child he

meets from growing up and entering the real world. Every

child loses their innocents sometime in their life, and Holden

becomes to realize that. As he matures he doesn't try to save

them from the real world, but he helps them accept it. This is

why Holden is a good counselor for teenagers because

teenagers are usually just beginning to enter the real world

and Holden can help them through it. Also, as he grew he

picked up on a hobby. Everyday after work, Holden goes to

the local park and feeds the ducks. Everyday he does this, in

the winter time and everything. It gives him time to think

about what went on in the day and helps him concentrate on

any issues he might be having at the time. As Holden grew

up, he matured a lot but he also did retain some of his

childhood qualities. One of these such qualities is his

constant changing of personalities. He will go from thinking

he is crazy, to then thinking he is something else. That is

something that will stay with him until he dies. That is just

Holden's personality. Cole Cuchna 12/2/99 Per7 All in all,

Holden's life is successful. He was able to turn around his life

after his emotional breakdown in the teen years of his life.

He was able to go back to school, graduate, get married,

have kids, and find a really good job that makes him happy.

I think everyone that knew Holden would be very proud of

him and the way he was able to turn his life around. And I

think everyone that read the book would be proud of him as

well.